CNN, a word to you on Brittney and Anna

[clayton_e]

@anamnesis

So goes Fox News, so goes every other news network because they’re all ratings whores.

I can’t imagine that anyone who actually watches any of the news networks would stay on the channel for longer than thirty seconds, killing ratings. I tune in every day for about 10-15 minutes to catch up on a few of the big news items… I tuned in for about two minutes from the last fifteen minutes of the lunch break for the trial… Enough to piss me off and keep me away from the channel for the next week or so. Anyone actually interested in A.N.S., I assume, would not favor watching hours of this pointless, mindnumbing, beurocratically run drivel when VH1 or MTV has one reality show or another on.
watching live coverage of Anna’s alien autopsy

@sampiro

…watching live coverage of Anna’s alien autopsy…

Evil… but made me chuckle.

[Dangerosa]

@Marley23

Yeah, go figure. I guess it hurts to be reminded you’ve abandoned whatever journalistic principles and sense of importance you once held dear.

When I grow up I want to be Edward Murrow, Bob Woodward, Walter Cronkite, Nellie Bly, Jacob Riis…

and all the network has room for is Hedda Hopper.

[Honey]

No matter what you may think about the complete overexposure of the Anna Nicole thing, the judge is very entertaining in that he’s a complete buffoon. He calls Howard K. Stern, Howard Smith and Larry Birkhead, Larry Birkwich. He calls Dannielynn, Daniel Lynn. He also refers to one of the attorneys as “Texas”.

Judge Judy would have dispatched with the lot of them within an hour including giving everyone involved a good beatdown.

[Contrapuntal]

clayton, terrible news, dude. She left rehab. I am beginning to despair.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/21/britneyspears.rehab.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

[Jamaika_a_jamaikaiake]

You watch news on TV, this is what you get. What the fuck did you expect? Content?

People bitch about Fox News, but is CNN any better? Is vapid unthinking nothingness really all that much better that vapid unthinking indoctrination? At least the latter is entertaining.

Now I admit that I’m only 26, so maybe it used to be otherwise. But even if so, that time is long past. Getting your news from TV nowadays is hopeless.

Turn on NPR. Read a good newspaper. Sift the vastness of the internet (this one takes time). But for pete’s sake, turn off your TV!

[Spoke]

@SpazCat

This was in the days when cuneiform was still a new and exciting thing, right?

Nah, just back before Ted Turner sold the network to Time-Warner.

Say what you will about Ted, but he always wanted CNN to offer serious news. I’ve seen several interviews in which he laments what CNN has become.

[Larry_Mudd]

Fuck, this morning while I was having my coffee I turned on CNN and couldn’t believe it. The judge who was presiding over the whole dying show clearing has aspirations of Being a Star. He was rambling on about… I don’t know what.

It was the Judge Whatsisface’s General Opinions on Life and Kids Today spectacular.

…and then Anna Nicole’s mommy started on about doughnut shop breakfasts, and she was clearly enjoying the limelight.

I flipped it over to TeleToons in the hope of finding something less condescending.

[AuntiePam]

@Larry Mudd

Fuck, this morning while I was having my coffee I turned on CNN and couldn’t believe it. The judge who was presiding over the whole dying show clearing has aspirations of Being a Star. He was rambling on about… I don’t know what.

One of the talking heads at CNN said he was putting together a highlight video, that he wants his own show.

The rambling you heard might have been the “I’m grieving, everyone here is grieving” ramble.

[Annie]

@Sampiro

I’d like to see CNN launch yet another channel. Call it “HOT TOPIC NEWS” or whatever and use it to drain off the excess fat from their “real” news channel. This way people who wanted to spend 4 hours watching live coverage of Anna’s alien autopsy or whatever could and those who’d really like to hear what’s happening in Congress, Iraq, the Mexican border, whatever, would get a shot.

I thought that was Headline News! Or is that just in the evenings?

Man, makes you wish The Economist did broadcast. Actually, CNN International doesn’t totally suck, but it’s only on when Anderson calls in sick for the graveyard gig.