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| 271.1 | | HELIX::MAIEWSKI | | Wed Jul 06 1994 06:40 | 3 |
| See 164.18
George
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| 271.2 | | NETRIX::michaud | OJ | Wed Jul 06 1994 07:03 | 13 |
| > See 164.18
Thanks, I'll keep an eye on that topic too, even though our
cable system does not get "Court TV" :-(
> Note: 164.0
> Author: HELIX::MAIEWSKI
> Topic: Court TV
> Date: 15-SEP-1993 07:08
>
> Use this note to discuss the Court TV Cable Station
>
> George
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| 271.3 | | HELIX::MAIEWSKI | | Wed Jul 06 1994 07:27 | 12 |
| Call them up. Right now I'm sure that lots of cable companies are getting
calls to add Court TV so you might not be the only one. Also, I saw an ad for
Court TV in the sports section of the Globe so it appears that they are doing
some marketing themselves.
As for the envelope, part of that is revenge for the prosecution's envelope
of a few days earlier. Lead prosecutor Marcia Clark received an envelope and
threatened to open it in court. It was rumored to have the long distance bill
showing that the call from Nicole's parents came at 10PM, not at 11PM but it
was never opened so we don't know.
George
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| 271.4 | | CSOA1::LENNIG | Dave (N8JCX), MIG, @CYO | Sat Jul 09 1994 09:09 | 2 |
| I'm getting tired of the saturation coverage; hell, even ESPN2 is
carrying the preliminary hearing. Sheesh!
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| 271.5 | | HELIX::MAIEWSKI | | Wed Jul 13 1994 02:16 | 20 |
| It's been my observation that no one gets as "sick and tired" of anything
as fast as people get "sick and tired" of hearing stories about the personal
lives of athletes.
People got "sick and tired" of hearing about Tonya and Nancy, they get "sick
and tired" of hearing about players salaries, and short of the O.J. Simpson
story itself the thing you hear most is about how people are "sick and tired"
of hearing about O.J. Simpson.
I'm waiting for someone to complain that they are "sick and tired" of hearing
about how people are "sick and tired" of sports stories.
Can anyone think of any story outside of sports which so many people got
"sick and tired" of hearing?
I wonder why this happens? Is it that we obsess about sports figures more
than other celebrities or do people get tired of hearing about them quicker
than they would if they were famous for some other reason?
George
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| 271.6 | | TFH::TOMAO | | Wed Jul 13 1994 02:44 | 9 |
| Well I'm "sick and tired" of Roseanne and Tom stories, I'm "sick and
tired" of monitoring Oprah's weight loss/gain, I'm "sick and tired" of
those annoying Toyota commercials etc. etc......Not that I don't
like/care for or are concerned for these people but puhleazzeeeee
anytime an issue/event/person gets more than their share of exposure
there will be people who are "sick and tired" of it. OJ has had more
than his share of exposure.
Jt
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| 271.7 | | ODIXIE::MOREAU | Ken Moreau;Sales Support;South FL | Wed Jul 13 1994 03:48 | 42 |
| RE: .5
One of the "features" of a free press is that there will necessarily be
*many* different channels. Some will be good, respectable and try to hold
down the hype and just report the news fairly and accurately. Some will
be rumor-mongering papers for whom "truth" is an abstract concept at best,
and not even a concept to be considered most of the time. And most will
be somewhere in the middle. (And no, I am *not* going to start listing
which newspapers etc I think fit into each category. That would be the
biggest flame war ever seen :-)).
Add in the fact that most of those channels generate profit, and the higher
their circulation the higher the profit. Then there is the idea that the
channel which brings in the information first (often by a few seconds)
somehow is "better" than the others. This means that every one of the
channels feels compelled to jump on the latest story with "complete" (which
is the industry code-word for massive overkill) coverage.
So you end up with the situation where *almost every TV channel* was
showing the same picture of a Bronco driving down a highway followed by
dozens of police cars (it was on ESPN and Lifetime(!!!) but at least it
was not on Nickelodeon). No channel was conveying any more information
than any other channel, but none of them dared cut away.
Marshall McLuhan was correct: 15 minutes of fame. The pattern is clear:
1) An event occurs
2) Some number of news channels cover it
3) Other news channels get sucked into the story *BECAUSE IT IS BEING COVERED
BY OTHER NEWS CHANNELS*
4) Repeat # 3 until *every* news channel is covering nothing else. Depending
on the story this can happen in minutes or weeks (compare the speed at
which the O.J. Simpson story dragged everybody in versus the time it took
for all major news channels to cover Watergate in the early 1970s)
5) People get sick of the news story, in which case a new event occurs and
we repeat the process at # 1
This is truly one of the problems of a free press, and one that (while I
go out of my way to avoid the news story de jure) I find preferable to the
alternative.
-- Ken Moreau
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| 271.8 | | SMAUG::LEHMKUHL | H, V ii 216 | Wed Jul 13 1994 04:14 | 12 |
| Yeah, well, while everyone avows to be sick to death
of this, when one of the networks dropped the coverage
level their Nielsens fell off a cliff. So it appears
there is an extremely mentally ill America out there
dying to hear as much as it can about this noisome event.
As a previous noter indicates, it is going to take a
war or a major catastrophe (100 year flooding in Georgia
is apparently not major enough) to knock this off the
literal and electronic front page. Rather than wish
for either, I'll stick to PBS, AMC, BRAVO, and A&E,
and read the newspaper.
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| 271.9 | I can't get enough | NETRIX::michaud | Rodney Dangerfield | Wed Jul 13 1994 04:21 | 11 |
| > ... there is an extremely mentally ill America out there ...
Your personal opinion of course. Remember that if everyone were
abnormal, the abornormal would be normal. The norm in this case
appears to of been interest in the prelim. hearing, those who
were not interested in it could be called the abnormal ones in
a situation such as this :-)
I for one never get sick and tired of the media coverage of any
of the mentioned events in this topic. Nothing better than a
real life soap opera!
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| 271.10 | Video rentals must be up ! | SLOHAN::FIELDS | Strange Brew | Wed Jul 13 1994 06:02 | 16 |
| my TV has an off button......I have watched some of the hearing (at
least we got told real facts not "so and so's friend of a friend said
he heard this" facts that we get from such high standard type tabloid
show as hard copy or a current affair) :')
one thing I noticed about what you see if you watch the hearing live
compared to watching say a wrap up of the hearing is that the LIVE
broadcast has only one camara.....the wrap up is edited it to hell and
back ! this might not mean much to some but with editing we might be
seeing something that happened at a different time than what we are
hearing or the other way around....this can warp the real context of
the hearing if you do not realize this is happening....
Chris
ps Ill try to explain this point better if anyone wishes me too...
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| 271.11 | | SMAUG::LEHMKUHL | H, V ii 216 | Thu Jul 14 1994 01:10 | 2 |
| Maybe that's my problem; I don't like make-believe
soap opera either. Thank god for being "abnormal".
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| 271.12 | I can't wait for the trail! | NETRIX::michaud | Tonya Harding | Thu Jul 14 1994 08:55 | 12 |
| > Maybe that's my problem; I don't like make-believe soap opera either.
I don't think that's your problem. I don't like make-believe
soap opera either, but I love true-life soap operas. The point
is you don't have a problem, your free to choose (it's not 1984
yet :-)
> Thank god for being "abnormal".
Well there is no such thing as "god" but replace "god" with
"goodness" then you'll have it right :-) Diversity is the
key to life (too bad the relgious right doesn't believe that :-().
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| 271.13 | | MOLAR::DELBALSO | I (spade) my (dogface) | Thu Jul 14 1994 13:38 | 10 |
| re: <<< Note 271.5 by HELIX::MAIEWSKI >>>
> Can anyone think of any story outside of sports which so many people got
> "sick and tired" of hearing?
Any story having to do with the residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.,
Wash., D.C.?
-Jack
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| 271.14 | | DELNI::DISMUKE | | Thu Jul 21 1994 00:25 | 10 |
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>Well there is no such thing as "god" but replace "god" with
>"goodness" then you'll have it right :-) Diversity is the
>key to life (too bad the relgious right doesn't believe that
>:-().
your opinion, of course.
-s
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| 271.15 | | NETRIX::michaud | Sandy Dunkin | Thu Jul 21 1994 02:24 | 7 |
| > your opinion, of course.
It's back up by real facts unlike the Western religion shared by
a mere minority of the worlds population :-)
But I hope you agree w/the 2nd half of the statement, that diversity
is indeed the key to life?
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| 271.16 | | TFH::TOMAO | | Thu Jul 21 1994 02:50 | 5 |
| RATHOLE ALERT
Lets get it back on track please.
Joyce
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| 271.17 | | NETRIX::michaud | June Lockheart | Thu Jul 21 1994 03:22 | 4 |
| Ok, back on track. The TV coverage has disappeared for a
while. I wonder if the arrainment (which I believe is still
scheduled for this Friday?) will be aired by all (I'm guessing
arrainment only takes a short time?)?
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| 271.18 | | HELIX::MAIEWSKI | | Thu Jul 21 1994 03:59 | 17 |
| The arraignment in Superior Court should be pretty short, about 10 minutes,
unless the lawyers take that opportunity to argue about something. Most likely
the Networks will show a 10-30 second clip. Court TV will have the entire
thing.
For now even Court TV has gone on to other trials. They do a brief segment
of updates each day. Earlier this week the news was the New Yorker article
claiming that the defense will claim that one of the detectives is racist and
planted the glove.
The latest is that "O.J." (read the defense team) has announced that a reward
is being offered for information to catch the real killer. Also leaders of the
Black Community in L.A. had a meeting with L.A. County District Attorney Gil
Garcetti in which they asked him not to ask for the death penalty on the
grounds that it is not applied equally with respect to race.
George
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