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[123rl]

Just curious I was wondering if the American press was making a big deal out of it, or if it's reserved for slow news days. Or is it even less of a priority than that?

It's been getting mentioned a lot in Britian recently, almost every day actually. A lot of papers have countdowns to the G8 summit, and it's usually the main story on the news

 

[cubanb]

I haven't seen much news coverage of the actual summit, just of the protests. They don't discuss the actual summit too much at least in the local news. However I have seen the protest footage nightly now.

 

[ronito]

TV news is much busier reporting on the "Missing White Woman" of the month.

 

[UtadaBarkley]

TV news is much busier reporting on the "Missing White Woman" of the month.

Mayne ain't that the truth!

 

[Macam]

The Black Eyed Peas aren't performing at the G8, right?

Spoiler

Nope.

 

[APF]

Europeans always seem to be more interested in the G8 than Americans, although I assumed it would get more coverage due to Live 8.

 

[123rl]

Thanks for the input I actually expected the same thing, and that it would get a lot of coverage. There was a few American students on my degree course so we would talk about this kind of stuff quite a lot, like American media is almost always very domestic

 

[Gattsu25]

a fair share of radio coverage on NPR

 

[ronito]

a fair share of radio coverage on NPR

Don't worry after the Bush Administration and republican congress/senate have their say you can have your "Missing White Woman of the Month" news non-stop. Blasted NPR.

 

[temp]

G-what? What-8? What-what?

 

[shpankey]

I never even heard of it... so I doubt it.

 

[Zep]

Nah, we need up-to-minute updates on the Bitch in Aruba, who will never be found...

 

[FightyF]

Yeah I changed to CNN once (it was an accident, I swear!) and there was thing about Aruba and a missing girl...and I didn't get it.

Is she a celebrity?
Is she a politician?
Is she a member of the military?
Is she a member of the FBI/CIA?
Does she hold information valuable to the security of the United States?
Is she an American diplomat that was stationed in Aruba?

So I watched for 10 minutes and didn't get ONE answer regarding why we should give a flying fuck.

 

[Gattsu25]

Is she a celebrity?
Is she a politician?
Is she a member of the military?
Is she a member of the FBI/CIA?
Does she hold information valuable to the security of the United States?
Is she an American diplomat that was stationed in Aruba?

I think she's just a tourist. with a small bum

 

[boutrosinit]

G8's making Bush look bad, hence I'd wager FOX et al have been directed to not report on the actual summit.

 

[Dice]

It's not meeting in america, so no.