Pretending to Care in Order to Sell Commercials

How much do Americans care about the people of Afghanistan? Glenn Greenwald links to a rather stunning statistic.

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And over the past ten years, how many minutes of news coverage have been devoted to ongoing war in Afghanistan, a war that never had a defined purpose or any metric of success?

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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    Alan

    Taking the people away from the Taliban needs to be a global effort. As usual the journalists have downgraded their profession to the top twenty worthless professions. What’s worse than worthless is they make things appear worse than they really are.

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