60 Minutes features on online gambling tonight 7PM EST...

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Leslie Stahl is no Geraldo.... [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

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thank god!

This was great! Newbies learned that:

-Party is the #1 most popular site. Guess that's probably a good place to go then!
-Whenever I see a '.net' ad, they really mean I should go to .com for real gambling!
-If I'm an underage minor, Golden Palace is an excellent place to get to play!
-12 Million Americans are playing, and they haven't complained - maybe this 'internet gambling' isn't so shady after all!

[ckmo]

don't forget that online roulette is awesome...

[uuDevil]

The commercial for St. Jude Children's Hospital after the gambling segment really got to me. Damn. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[MasterShakes]

This is just another example of an evening news magazine, with an amazing amount of financial resources and time, doing an extraordinarily poor job of researching a relatively easy topic to research. It's also another example of the profession of journalism searching for a hook or headline, rather than actual facts.

[TheHammer24]

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This is just another example of an evening news magazine, with an amazing amount of financial resources and time, doing an extraordinarily poor job of researching a relatively easy topic to research. It's also another example of the profession of journalism searching for a hook or headline, rather than actual facts.

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This is just another example of an evening news magazine, with an amazing amount of financial resources and time, doing an extraordinarily poor job of researching a relatively easy topic to research. It's also another example of the profession of journalism searching for a hook or headline, rather than actual facts.

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Every single time this story was mentioned today, it was under the headline of something like "it's illegal... so why are so many people doing it?" They did almost nothing to try to describe why it is that the law is ambiguous on this subject. They also did not make it entirely clear that the law is ambiguous on this subject. They just said that it's illegal. They didn't even make it clear that it is illegal to begin with, despite the headline they used to advertise this story.

I think if they would have given this story half of the hour with one commercial break, they could have done a much better job with it. They could have focused more on the foreign regulatory bodies. They could have spent more time showing the different ways that the law can be interpreted.

The story, as it was aired, will leave their viewers at least uninformed, if not misinformed or confused.

[TheHammer24]

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This is just another example of an evening news magazine, with an amazing amount of financial resources and time, doing an extraordinarily poor job of researching a relatively easy topic to research. It's also another example of the profession of journalism searching for a hook or headline, rather than actual facts.

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Every single time this story was mentioned today, it was under the headline of something like "it's illegal... so why are so many people doing it?" They did almost nothing to try to describe why it is that the law is ambiguous on this subject. They also did not make it entirely clear that the law is ambiguous on this subject. They just said that it's illegal. They didn't even make it clear that it is illegal to begin with, despite the headline they used to advertise this story.

I think if they would have given this story half of the hour with one commercial break, they could have done a much better job with it. They could have focused more on the foreign regulatory bodies. They could have spent more time showing the different ways that the law can be interpreted.

The story, as it was aired, will leave their viewers at least uninformed, if not misinformed or confused.

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They only have so much time it would have been better if they had more but they didn't

The entire story basically showed how irrartional the US government was for making it illegal though.

[IggyWH]

Damn 60 Minutes got me to surf on over to bet365 and they have free, flash slots. I'm now addicted to Ocean Princess [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

[BottlesOf]

That quote illustrates the most annoying part of what was otherwise a pretty good take on something that is normally ridiculously butchered in the mainstream press. It was of course not without its flaws.