Media Coverage and JFK Jr

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It disgusts me the way the mindless American public can get themselves worked up into such an emotional lather over some story that is realistically going to have very little, if any, impact on their lives. Just who were those sobbing women who were standing outside JFK JR’s New York residence? They looked like poster children for mass hysteria. This same story was repeated many times over the weekend of the crash, by lesser-known …

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…They don't matter. "Not interested? That's politics and it bores me!" More Americans can name the three people killed in that plane accident over that weekend than can name their two U.S. Senators and their Congressman. That, my friends, is sad beyond words. How in the world can this Republic survive when its people and the media, obsess over every detail concerning the Kennedy family at the expense of other stories that really matter?