I can't work out why CNN is so boring

[Atahualpa]

What does the Z in ZOMFG (= z... oh my ****ing god) mean?

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Gatekeeper


One thing I've observed over the years is that folks with agendas tend to never like what they see, read or hear. Gatekeeper

Not me - I'm just bored by the CNN coverage

[Sava]

Originally posted by Atahualpa
What does the Z in ZOMFG (= z... oh my ****ing god) mean?

nothing

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Atahualpa
What does the Z in ZOMFG (= z... oh my ****ing god) mean?

zombie

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Gatekeeper
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.

Let's put it this way. With your "professionalism" these days, there's no way Woodward and Berstein would be allowed to uncover Watergate. The 70s were a golden age for journalism, but once it became "profesionalized" it started going downhill.

I think there are two major problems with the media today, first, they're cowards. They are too afraid to challenge public authorities, except when it comes to sex or the evidence is overwhelming and has already been gathered for them by someone else. The are afraid because they don't want to lose their access. They are afraid to go after corporate criminals, because they don't want to piss off their advertisers and they are afraid to be sued. Profit is more important than the public's right to know.

As for corporate interference from the top, I know it exists. Look at what happened at the San Jose Mercury or the Fox news affiliate in Tampa. NBC never says anything negative about GE, ABC about Disney, etc. Journalists who don't tow the line find themselves without work.

Do they dictate everything? No, they don't have to. Journalists self-censor.

I don't care whether the media is left-wing or not. What I want is for them to have some balls and do what they promised, "Aflict the comforatable and comfort the afflicted."

[Sikander]

The 1970s also had some of the worst journalism ever, despite the much larger number of outlets and budgets.

[Alexander's Horse]

examples>

[Ecthy]

No surprise there, 1970 also saw the registration of the worst posters

[Alexander's Horse]

your trolls never quite come off son

[Ecthy]

Trolls don't look like that, grampa.

[Jack_www]

Geraldo, on his Sunday show on fox, showed tape of him going into people's house and helping carying people in wheel chairs out of their houses into helocopters. I started to laugh at Geraldo when I saw that. Geraldo is too much, but he is good to watch for a good laugh some times.

[Ted Striker]

Jack, I agree, Geraldo is always pitching Geraldo more than he does the actual story.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
examples>

Well we can start with just about anything Dan Rather did, like claiming that the vast majority of Vietnam Veterans were insane and dangerous. He interviewed insane people who claimed to have been Vietnam vets (but who were in fact simply insane) and then extrapolated his bogus control group to the population at large. When confronted with the truth he stonewalled just like he did about the Bush forgeries.

[Ecthy]

Stonewalled? Like he did what?

[Tingkai]

Odds are that Sik's story about Rather isn't true, and even if it was, one person making one mistake is hardly proves that the entire media was terrible.