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I spent a good portion of yesterday in O'Hare airport, either walking from one terminal to another trying to find a flight with room for standby passengers, or sitting at gates where (as often as not) there was a television showing CNN. The amount of coverage being devoted to the miscommunication of the miners' status was truly mind-boggling.. What was particularly upsetting about it was that the same footage and interviews, which were almost totally free of useful information to begin with, were repeated over and over, ad nauseam. Meanwhile, in Washington, one of the most powerful (and most corrupt) political lobbyists in the nation, who has strong financial ties to dozens of Republican and a few Democratic lawmakers, who has extremely close and complicated ties to the currently-under-indictment ex-speaker- of-the-House, has reached a plea agreement with the Justice Department in exchange for testimony against an unknown number of legislators. The Abramoff plea bargain has the potential to blow Washington corruption wide open, though it's unlikely it'll go that far. It's still an incredible story, full of fascinating back-room deals, blatant swindles and influence peddling, all kinds of juicy stuff. But you'd be lucky to catch a 15-second video clip of Abramoff's perp-walk on CNN, they're too busy interviewing some miner's step-father about whether or not he thinks it was a bad thing that his son got trapped in the mine.. Yikes.
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