http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6175778Oh my.
I tell you, the lad's got a great future, as either a
gigolo or a cosmetologist.
armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 05:06 AM
Original message
I keep noticing that topics discussed on DU one night end up in the MSM the next night...
Does anyone else notice that?
CNN
NBC
MSNBC
ABC
CBS
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report.
I notice that these channels and shows seem to air topics discussed previously on DU. It happens like clockwork. A story breaks online (DU or other websites) or from some obscure source, DU discusses it and the next day the mainstream media picks it up.
It's very weird. Coincidence or something else?
Well, franksolich has noticed for a very long time that one can tell what's on the boob tube on any particular evening, because the primitives discuss television serials as if they're real life.
Or, a particular issue may be featured in a television serial, and the primitives re-construct it, as a bouncy, stretchy, or zulu having the same theme, but ostensibly happening in real life.
Or the primitives steal that issue from the television serial and hunt around for a news-blurb concerning the issue, and post it, as if the primitives thought of it before it showed up on television.
Primitives never have any ideas on their own; it's antithetical to their very beings.
csziggy (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 05:11 AM
Response to Original message
2. Lazy writers - they have figured out there is a huge source of free research here
And they are tapping into it. Most media and shows these days don't have the budgets for doing research. But we, the obsessed, go out and do it for free or for fun. Sure, they can and should check the stuff we all post here, but we give them a major start on the research they should be doing.
Also there is such a wide range of interests and backgrounds here, DU is also a good place for a sort of market testing to see which subjects will catch the attention of the liberal public.
The silly primitive:
SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 06:09 AM
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7. It's cheaper for news venues to "mine" the net, than to actually investigate stories past the initial article that gets printed.
If they had to have their own employees do the research & digging, they would have to authorize overtime or hire more people..news is exponential, and "new" stuff is always happening. When they run their initial stories, they have no way of knowing for sure which ones will catch fire and need more investigation. By the time they figure that out, the journalist is on to other stories.
The lazy way (and cheapest) is to wait and see which things are of interest to the people who love to dig for MORE, and then to just co-opt their research (along with all the links to where they found the juicy details), and then run with it..
The last paragraph is the standard
modus operendi of the primitives.
armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 06:20 AM
Response to Original message
8. Somebody unrec'd this...
****ing trolls.
greyl (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 08:39 AM
Response to Reply #8
12. I don't see your OP as being one of the Greatest on DU.
I'm not a troll.
bigwillq (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 08:52 AM
Response to Reply #12
14. Me neither.
I don't know why people care so much about this rec/unrec thing. Silly, if you ask me.
armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 05:11 PM
Response to Reply #12
20. I don't see it being on the greatest page either. That doesn't mean it needs to be unrec'd.
BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-30-09 02:12 AM
Response to Reply #20
29. Too bad you don't get to vote for other people.
JNelson6563 (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 08:37 AM
Response to Original message
11. Wow but DU is so full of itself.
Yes I am sure all the major news outlets scan DU for news and the WH staffers are always checking out DU too.
Cause Bob knows they all want to know who's puppy is sick, what the weather is doing in various DUers' neighborhoods, who's sick, who's wife left them and all other manner of tripe that is posted pretty much daily here. And it is clearly evident that if the TV pundits think they can talk a topic to death and beyond, well DUers can teach them the REAL art of overkill!
How laughable.
armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 05:13 PM
Response to Reply #11
22. You missed my point entirely...
Do you honestly think I was talking about that stuff? Honestly?
I'm speaking about substantive topics that begin as obscure news stories, we dig them up, and the next day it ends up in MSM.
No, no, that's wrong.
Idea men for television serials dig them up, and the next day they end up on Skins's island as "substantive" topics.
franksolich's new
protege has that all backwards.
JNelson6563 (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 05:16 PM
Response to Reply #22
24. Yes, I'm sure it's thanks to DUers the stories make news.
But no, you weren't talking about "that stuff".
Well, I guess it's only fitting that we lead the way on these stories cause we certainly out-do the media on the over-kill of a story once it hits.
kentuck (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 10:16 AM
Response to Original message
18. We're slipping...
We used to be days and weeks ahead. Or maybe they are gaining on us?
Huh?
One classic case was when George Bush nominated Mukasy for attorney general.
Everybody out in the real world, including all decent and civilized people, knew it was a done deal, all tied up, engraved in stone, in September.
And then the primitives ended up being sorely surprised three months later, when Mukasy was confirmed.
The primitives on Skins's island are always behind, never ahead.
Norrin Radd (1000+ posts) Thu Jul-30-09 02:09 AM
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28. Most of the blogs listed on the front page are cowardly in that they won't link to DU. But I suspect they still read it, as well as certain newscasters/commentators. Rachel Maddow in particular frequently uses stories and neologisms that originate here.
