I can't work out why CNN is so boring

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Sikander


Now just keep that feeling with you when you post.

The zinger- zaappp!!!!!

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Sikander


Now just keep that feeling with you when you post.

You seem to be following me around in every thread with your cute one liners. I'm flattered.

Thanks

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Jack_www


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.

That's the clip that was in my post, it shows him with that baby.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Wycoff


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

Originally posted by Sava


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

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
Go on Spencer.

I dont think I need to but I'll make this one point.

AFAIK CNN was the first channel to note that the majority of the refugees are black. Not poor, not elderly and infirm, just black! Shortly therafter, the CNN commentary turned indignant about the situation, implying that it was somehow a racist plot. Next up for airtime, a leader of the black caucus who's indignant about the term 'refugee' to describe the (mostly black) evacuating population. At that point I knew that the good news coverage had ceased and the whining had begun so I changed channel and havent been back.

[Ecthy]

I'm seriously concerned why some of you hate America so much...

[The diplomat]

"Mommy, mommy, those liberals are being mean to me again!"

[Ecthy]

"All that these liberals are after is the sapping and impurifying of all our precious bodily fluids."

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Gatekeeper
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

Yeah, because the "professional" journalism thing of the past 25 years has done such a great job.

[SpencerH]

The funny thing is though that while Geraldo works for FOX he is definitely nothing approaching a conservative.

[chequita guevara]

Geraldo was a member of a left-wing Latino militant group inn the 60s.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Odin


Don't you mean CONSERVATIVE News Network?

*whoosh*

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by 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.

"douchebaggery" is my new favorite word.

[Gatekeeper]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Yeah, because the "professional" journalism thing of the past 25 years has done such a great job.

One thing I've observed over the years is that folks with agendas tend to never like what they see, read or hear. They then trot out the old, tired cliches of:

1. The media is controlled by its corporate overlords who dicate newsroom policy right down to the paperclips.

2. The media is controlled by its liberal overlords who dictate newsroom policy right down to the paperclips.

3. The media is controlled by its Jewish overlords who dictate newsroom policy right down to the paperclips.

4. The media is controlled by its ...

Well, you see where it's going here, don't you, Che? I believe you, more often than not, like to use No. 1 when there's something out there you don't like because it clashes with your ideology.

I'm not saying journalism is perfect — how can anything be whose origins rest with humans? But what cannot be denied is that journalists are often used as punching bags by those who have real agendas and, more often than not, they simply absorb the blows without complaint because, if they did complain, it'd "prove" this or that about so and so "biases."

And don't even get me going on how often commentators and columnists — who are not journalists in the purest sense of the word — are often mistaken as the real thing. They're opinion types, which is why they appear on the editorial pages of newspapers and on TV/Web talk shows.

They also make a lot more money than Joe and Jane Reporter who cover city commission meetings and write investigative pieces.

Gatekeeper

[Odin]

Originally posted by SpencerH


I dont think I need to but I'll make this one point.

AFAIK CNN was the first channel to note that the majority of the refugees are black. Not poor, not elderly and infirm, just black! Shortly therafter, the CNN commentary turned indignant about the situation, implying that it was somehow a racist plot. Next up for airtime, a leader of the black caucus who's indignant about the term 'refugee' to describe the (mostly black) evacuating population. At that point I knew that the good news coverage had ceased and the whining had begun so I changed channel and havent been back.

ZOMFG TEH EVIL LIBRUL MEDIA!11!!!1!!11!!!1!




There is no Liberal bias, it's called RATINGS, Spencer.