Can CNN sink any further?! I have refused to watch them at all this year.
Sometimes it is nice to watch some “International” news which they are supposed to have at 8am local time, so every time I’ve turned it on, it is either not on, or it is 1/2 of covering the US Elections which they do for 23 of the remaining hours of the day, or they have interrupted “Your World” to cover such pressing breaking news as “a cat stuck in a tree for 5 days is rescued!” Big Deal, that is is joke.
Sometimes I try to catch a snippet of Jack Cafferty, but it’s a crap shoot, that I get stuck seeing Wolf, [/James Earl Jones voice]The Stupidest Man in News[/voice] Blitzer, and am guaranteed hearing at least 5 times in 2 minutes “stick around, CNN, the most trusted name in news.” It makes me want to vomit, as it does Ted Turner, that their ratings went into the toilet so they mimic Faux Noise, so what does that make CNN? “Fake & Stupid?”
Here’s a “Real Story” here if I ever saw one… CNN makes up reality to make it look they are covering real issues
Let me put it to you this way, there was not much Stage Mastery at the Obama Rally in Oregon. It was real simple stuff, even a high school journalism student could do it. They sent out notices that he would be in Oregon over the weekend. Locations were announced outside the Portland metro area for Sunday. Friday afternoon notices by email went out for the park event, rsvp by email, but it got you no assured entrance.
gates open at 12:30.
People started getting in line around 8am, maybe some earlier. The lines continued to grow up one block down another zigzaggin through town. Gates started to open around 1, there was not much offered although there were gallons of water passed around with some cups. The Decemberist, chose to do this on their own, and with the setup of the stage about the 1st 10 rows could see the stage and band, so 500 people of 70,000+ people could see the band, no more. They played about 30 an hour.
Congressmen Earl Blumenhauer spoke about 15 minutes after the band stopped for 10 minutes, then we all stood around and waited for at least a half an hour until Obama came out.
There was a lot of waiting around, about 5-7 hours for most people to see 30 minutes of Barack Obama, hear a little bit of music and not a lot more happened other than waiting around. Then talking another hour to get out of the park.
Manufactured events, like CNN is claiming it to be? Hardly! People would barely wait around 1 hour to see their favorite sports team play for 3 hours, let alone wait for 5-7 hours to see a Presidential candidate talk for 1/2 hour.
CNN – Certainly Not News
They certainly have a knack for making something into nothing and nothing into something!
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Regular Brotha // May 22, 2008 at 6:03 am |
I agree. I noticed about 7 years ago how CNN changed it’s coverage to mimic Fox News-Lite.
At one point, when Bernard Shaw was with them especially, they actually had it right. Since Fox started garnering the Hillary working class white viewer along with the neo brained Republican viewer, CNN must have thought they had to appeal to those viewers also.
What they didn’t understand was that those viewers are not the majority of the news viewing public. This election between Obama and Hillary has demonstrated that while there quite a bit of white americans who are still color conscioused, there are also quite a bit of white americans who are not.
Those who are not are more likely to be the type who also don’t like how the government has been led theh past 7.5 years and know that it was those color conscious type of white working class people who voted for Bush though it was clear that a vote for Bush was not in their best interest, just like a vote for Billary is also not in their best interest (see NAFTA).
S EE // June 2, 2008 at 11:05 pm |
My wife & have been watching CNN election coverage tonight. At one point in the program under the guise of “breaking news” Anderson Cooper went into a complete COMMENTARY regarding Bill Clintons “tiered” in response to Todd Purdum’s (Vanity Fair) article. At one point during the report, as though on cue , we turned and looked at each other in disbelief of what we were hearing. This is not news, It’s a three-ring CIRCUS. The report went on in repetition for a good half hour before we finally had to change the channel.
We have been in support of Obama in the current election, so our response was not related to our convictions.
It’s really gotten to the point that the reporting on CNN is an insult to any form of intelligence. Who writes that cr@p? Is there anyone watching that really believes that they are watching the unbiased reporting? I hope not…..It would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic.
What is kind of funny, is that it drove me to internet in search of others that might have noticed this low-level form of “journalism”. My Google search was “CNN sucks”. Guess how many pages came up in the search results……….
Hans // June 3, 2008 at 7:41 am |
I did a little search and found this article by Ted Turner, the founder of CNN.
There are others out there, but probably the best way to find his perspective on CNN specifically is to search for interviews with him. I saw him a couple weeks ago on Charlie Rose. Searching his name on the website showed the interview I saw, plus 2 older ones which were probably after he was forced out of CNN with the Time Warner Merger.
I don’t even bother watching HN, as that is more drivel than ever. If I could filter CNN for only reporting from Michael Ware or Christine Amanpour, I would watch them, but it is far and few between when they grace the airwaves.
forgot to put “sucks” into the tag words, my wife found a funny episode on you tube with puppets and all, with “Hans Sucks” I didn’t really think “Sucks” was a tag, other than for porn