Blinded By Obama

The Democrats gather in Denver to sell Barack Obama to the nation. The $100 million spectacle of the Democratic National Convention seemingly blinds U.S. media to rising political upheaval around the world. Did everyone buy into the hype and hoopla of the Democrats' big show? SOURCES: Russia Today, Russia; Al Jazeera, Qatar; KBS News, South Korea; BBC, U.K.; Deutsche Welle, Germany; Press TV, Iran; CCTV, China Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Aug 29, 2008 - 4:49 AM PDT
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by Fabrice Florin - Aug. 29, 2008

Interesting news overview showing how broadcasters from around the world covered the Democratic Convention and Obama's nomination -- and how they balanced that coverage with other important world issues. This focus on more critical news events is a healthy departure from the American media's coverage of the razzle-and-dazzle in Denver, though this segment goes a bit too far in downplaying the importance of Obama's historic nomination.

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by Kaizar Campwala - Aug. 29, 2008

A wonderful topic for Global Pulse. This sort of analysis lends itself to a comparison of number of minutes coverage by story, which they don't do. Nevertheless, a must-see

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by Denise Clendening - Aug. 29, 2008

Interesting story but suffers from the title being misleading. It is not Obama but the American election process and how MSM covers the news that blinds us. If the story was titled Blinded by the Political Process I think people would not be as offended. Russian president Medvedev understood that historically American voters focus on candidates only during this time period. The point that the story makes that more important news is occurring in the world during this time period is ... More »

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by Stephan Laurent-Faesi - Aug. 29, 2008
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by Jonathan Cole - Aug. 29, 2008

Pathetic

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by John Debois - Aug. 30, 2008

I'm a big fan of Link TV and in particular their news program Mosaic and the intelligence report. Global Pulse just does not cut it. There is nothing new or interesting in this story and it contains several errors.

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by Karen Schmitt - Aug. 29, 2008

Besides being totally partisan and obnoxious, this "news" video made huge errors in fact....one being that Hillary had "80 million votes." Sorry, it was only 18 million. Article is totally not credible.

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