Sad isn’t it that Weiner’s weiner is getting more attention than our President’s health and economic policy plummeting our country into further debt and threatening yet another recession! A phenomena that I heard quoted in the context of the Katrina tragedy was compassion fatigue. Basically, the American public lost interest in the Katrina tragedy even though the crisis hadn’t passed, so press coverage moved on to something that would gain John Q Public’s attention again.
The examples of this concept in the media are endless, from a tragedy perspective (9/11, Katrina, Haiti, Japan) and otherwise. What was the best thing to happen to Toyota after their “unintended acceleration” problems? The answer of course is the BP explosion in the gulf. The American public all the sudden had a new villain so worrying about Toyota was no longer front page news. Is the Japan earthquake tragedy done, hardly. But it doesn’t sell newspapers anymore so the press has moved on.
So the best thing that happened to The Governator was Weinergate. Who will be next in line to take the pressure off of Weiner? Who knows, but rest assured there will be someone.
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