I can't work out why CNN is so boring

[monolith94]

And that checkpoint news is shocking. Absolutely shocking.

[Heresson]

Re: I can't work out why CNN is so boring

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
They have this way of making every disaster seem dull and an anticlimax. They used a handful of reporters for the hurricane and the same faces reporting nothing a lot of the time really got my nerves.

How do they do it?

They're speaking in English?

[Wycoff]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
Shepard I know was dying to tell it like it is but he was afraid he would get cut off if he did so he had to cool it. He was also pissed at the commentator back in the studio who was trying to pitch the company line.

That commentator was Sean Hannity, America's biggest douche bag.

[Sava]

Originally posted by Wycoff


That commentator was Sean Hannity, America's biggest douche bag.

YEAH THIS IS WHAT SEAN HAS TO SAY TO LIBRUL COMMIES LIKE YOU WYCOFF... OR SHOULD I SAY WACKOFF?!?!?

[DerSchwarzfalke]

Sean Hannity may be a douchebag, but he still has a solid twenty years of douchebaggery before he can come close to topping Geraldo Rivera.

[Jack_www]

I agree that CNN is borring to watch. I dont know why, but I just think it has to do with the reporters. They might just be borring themselfs. The news channels I watch are MSNBC and FOX. I know how you guys hate FOX, but I like to watch different channels, anything but CNN. I also sometimes watch network news too.

[Jack_www]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
Fox News reporters:

Shepard Smith and Geraldo (dork) are very frustrated. I've always liked Shepard Smith even though he works for the dark side. The reporters themselves are pissed but look at the ticker at the bottom talking about what "Bush is doing." Geraldo is doing his usual crap, he looks like a dork but that's Geraldo for you.


Shepard I know was dying to tell it like it is but he was afraid he would get cut off if he did so he had to cool it. He was also pissed at the commentator back in the studio who was trying to pitch the company line.

This clip is priceless:

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Hannity-Colmes-Smith-Rivera-freak-in-NO.mov

It's amazing how these tv crews can get in but our own government cannot.

HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE

I saw him on FOX the day before they started to massive evacuation of the convention center and I-10. He look like he was going to lose it. I he was saying the condition of the people there and that the government need to get down there right away.

On the same night Geraldo has way over the top. He took someone's baby that was near him, held the baby up to the camera and started to cry saying that the people of the convention center needed help. I almost could not believe that Geraldo could go that far.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Sava
Clinton News Network

Don't you mean CONSERVATIVE News Network?


BBC:
NPR:

[Gatekeeper]

Reporters, et al., becoming emotionally invested in the stories they're covering is generally frowned upon. With the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it's understandable why some would simply not be able to remain professional about it ... after all, they're human, too.

But (and isn't there always a but?) when the reporter has a known history of acting oddly in a number of circumstances, as Geraldo has done, it really makes me question whether he's being genuine or simply going into histronics for the benefit of the camera (and the humiliation of "real" reporters).

In some ways, Geraldo is a throwback to the days of Yellow Journalism, when standards weren't as high, everyone got involved in taking sides, damn objectivity, and even had a hand in starting a war (the 1898 Spanish-American one, if my journalism history memories are correct). Those days may be making a comeback and I, for one, *don't* welcome them.

Gatekeeper

[Alexander's Horse]

Fox does have a "I can't believe they just said that" advantage.

[Pekka]

Well, if it's dull and only informative, it means it's real news.

News entertainment

Brainwashed Americans not knowing the difference or that it's a very bad thing x 10000000

Fat people

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
That's true, and plus they don't have a wide variety of subjects like the BBC does. BBC has a good variety of international coverage.

Everytime I watch I realize how much I don't know what's going on in the world.

Now just keep that feeling with you when you post.

[Atahualpa]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
Fox News reporters:

Shepard Smith and Geraldo (dork) are very frustrated. I've always liked Shepard Smith even though he works for the dark side. The reporters themselves are pissed but look at the ticker at the bottom talking about what "Bush is doing." Geraldo is doing his usual crap, he looks like a dork but that's Geraldo for you.


Shepard I know was dying to tell it like it is but he was afraid he would get cut off if he did so he had to cool it. He was also pissed at the commentator back in the studio who was trying to pitch the company line.

This clip is priceless:

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Hannity-Colmes-Smith-Rivera-freak-in-NO.mov

It's amazing how these tv crews can get in but our own government cannot.

HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE

that clip certainly shocked me

[Daz]

AH, its the "reporting-of-corpses-floating-with-a-mandatory-smile-on-their-faces" that kills it...

[Alexander's Horse]

I had a theory that it was because they employed Ken and Barbie airheads as reporters but some of those people are ugly with it.