>Funny you should say that. I remember 10 years ago when I first started really getting suspicious about the news. I lived in New York in Grenwich Village and there was a riot a couple blocks away from me. I couldn't understand why the only stations that were covering it were the spanish stations. It's turned into a ratings game. I could guess what the conversation in the editors room sounds like: "Should we go with the story of another one of our kids being killed in Iraq or an interview with one of Coby's neighbors about their opinion?" After the chuckling stops, they go with the Coby story.
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>Louis

Louis;

It is called “newsworthy” and is a corporate dictate. Who cares about a body count when we can have “real news”!

Our experience in the SF Bay Area is similar. The Spanish station has covered life and death situations in San Jose and San Francisco that the mainstream stations do no report on.

It's the ratings! :)

Tom