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Which one of these stories was “Breaking News” today on many American media outlets?

  • Russia and Georgia are essentially at war
  • Oil is now down to $114/barrel
  • John Edwards admitted having an affair

August 8th, 2008 7 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under In the News

  1. RT Solo posted the following on 10 August 2008 at 11:48 pm.

    The breaking news is over on Chessaholic’s blog…

    A preview:

    “Don’t worry, they have confirmed that the chance that a sustainable black hole will form and consume the earth is quite small.”

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  2. Donnie posted the following on 11 August 2008 at 12:38 pm.

    The number of unlucky people in the world is high enough. Get your popcorn ready.

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  3. l3rucewayne posted the following on 11 August 2008 at 6:30 pm.

    The interesting thing I’ve heard is that if the media had looked into this story seriously early on (Heard something about their being longstanding reports or something that have been ignored) then with Edwards out of the running in Iowa Hillary might have won there and eventually gotten the nomination. I guess we will never know.

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  4. Allen posted the following on 12 August 2008 at 9:18 am.

    So…. how many people do you think knew it was a country and not just an American state?

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  5. Donnie posted the following on 12 August 2008 at 9:37 am.

    @l3rucewayne: Yeah, I saw that, it’s probably true. Clinton would have basically walked through; Obama probably needed the initial win to be competitive.

    @Allen: 1/3 was the first number that came to mind.

    But when whenever they do those surverys of Americans’ knowledge of geography, we’re always more terribad than I could fathom. Probably more like 1/8.

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  6. chessloser posted the following on 12 August 2008 at 12:22 pm.

    i thought the big news was the deaths of bernie mac and isaac hayes…

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  7. Donnie posted the following on 15 August 2008 at 12:38 pm.

    Hmmm. But were they white enough to make breaking news in American media? That’s the first question I’d ask.

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