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April 27, 2006

Dredging up Trash on the Drudge Report

I read the Drudge Report every day because I find it fascinating what conservatives think are important headlines. Increasingly, the right is focusing on garbage instead of real news. For example, today Drudge featured these headlines:

Disturbing Girl Fight Caught on Tape; Distributed on MYSPACE...
Florida woman sees lightning kill friend...
Border Birth: Illegal Immigrant Uses Nail Clippers...
Police Search For Man Accused of Bestiality with Horse; Surveillance Tape Released...
Teen swears by mud diet...
Suspended priest arrested in sex assault...

Interestingly, these were not featured on the site:

Senate Panel Recommends Abolishing FEMA
GOP Senators Spurn Bush's Order to Cut Bill
Blast At Italian Base In Iraq Kills 3
Bulgarians Protest Base Deal With U.S.
1 in 5 pay more in Medicare Rx plan

I'm only writing about this because it is such a common occurrence. It concerns me that some of the most popular conservative information sources (include Fox News in this) focus so heavily on tripe and avoid the more difficult stories. It speaks volumes about the perception these people have of the American people. They feed us nothing but trash and then claim that's all we'll eat.

Posted by Becky at April 27, 2006 06:32 AM

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