Even though celebrities in the entertainment world receive a lot of television coverage when something major takes place in there lives, other important things such as the 2008 Presidential race also received a lot of coverage also. During the time when both Barack Obama and Sen. Hilary Clinton both announced that they will be running for the president's position in 2008 they got into a little misunderstanding.
The mishap started between Clinton and Obama when David Geffen, a Hollywood star who is in favor for Barack Obama made statements that criticized the Hilliary campaign. The statements included "Everybody in politics lies, but they (Hilliary and Bill Clinton) do it with such ease, it's troubling." This statement obviously bothered the Clinton campaign because they sent a statement to Obama telling him to let David Geffen go from his campaign and return his money to him. Obama's campaign then released a statement which stated its "ironic that the Clinton's had no problem with David Geffen when he was raising them $18 million and sleeping at their invitation in the Lincoln Bedroom." This then created a mini-like-feud between the two campaign's where they went back and forth releasing statements. The news station took this to their advantage and made sure they covered everything that was going on when every statement was released. While all of this was going on America watched.
Maybe the media broad casted this story too much and as soon as something else occurred, which happened to be the death of Anna Nicole Smith, the public grasp to that story. To keep the public interest the news stations gave them what wanted and kept covering the Anna Nicole case. Maybe America just likes to be informed on the new drama going on in the world (ex. the Obama vs Clinton feud and Anna Nicole Smith), so doesn't it make sense for the new stations to give us what we are urging for?
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