Who's More Important?

I just don't understand it, and I am sure that the Networks are going to be of the same opinion about the way that most of us feel. They just don't get it.

The coverage Tuesday by the networks of the memorial service for the soldiers who were killed in the terrorist event there was rather telling, I think. NBC offered live coverage of the whole service. Soldiers snapping to attention and saluting as the National Anthem was played, silently mouthing the words of the Warrior Ethos along with GEN George Casey as he recited it. ABC and CBS? They were showing their "regularly scheduled" soap operas. No mention of the events going on at Ft Hood. When did they go to it? They broke in to their soaps when President Obama was stepping up to the teleprompter.

When did ABC and CBS end their coverage? CBS left as Obama stepped away from the mic, ABC held on until the start of "Amazing Grace" then they went back to the soaps. No Chaplains speaking, no prayers, no hymns, no National Anthem, no Generals speaking, no Taps. No thought or consideration given to the families across the nation who lost loved ones in that event at Ft Hood. Brothers, Sisters, Grandsons, Grand daughters, nephews and nieces, friends, loved ones from all walks of life and all stages of life. All they cared about, or so it seems anyway was the "photo op" of Pres Obama making an appearance at the memorial service. Nothing else.

Now, lets compare that to a Tuesday in July. Another memorial service. This one for the "King of Pop". According to the Nielsen ratings 30.9 million people over 3 hours watched that memorial service, because there was nothing else on the TV. As Brent Bozell said then, "On the night of July 6, ABC, CBS and NBC paid twenty times more attention to Jackson, more than a week after his death, than to the deaths of 7 brave soldiers in Afghanistan."

I know that I am biased, because I have spent most of my adult life (in fact basically HALF of my life at this point) in the Army. I know people at Ft Hood. But this is something that SHOULD have been on the top of the lists for ALL NETWORKS. NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, MSNBC... All of them.

Well, that's my opinion...