Then maybe CNN will have some news to cover other than this fucking Chandra Levy case. I’m sorry she’s missing. I hope they find her alive and well. Until then, however, shut the fuck up about it.
If she had been an intern at some local radio station, no one would have heard of her. Just because she was an intern for a Senator, she gets all the media attention. How about all the kids that go missing every year, where’s their non-stop media attention CNN? Why don’t you update me on the search for Sabrina Aisenberg or Opal Jo Jennings? I know the answer to that question of course; those stories aren’t juicy enough. No sex scandal, no politicians. Just two innocent missing kids. No news.
Fuck you CNN. I’m stuck listening to this shit every fucking night at work. We don’t have a choice to change channels. I can turn off the speaker at my desk - which I do - but I can still hear your talking heads blathering on about nothing from the other employees’ speakers.
You have an update on the Levy case? So do I. Here’s the latest: She’s still missing. Condit’s still not talking. The police don’t know shit, and if they do, they aren’t telling the media. Now we’re all up to date. Don’t say another fucking word about it until one of those three things changes.
I fail to see how Chandra Levy’s case is any more important or newsworthy than any other missing person case out there right now. She’s been gone for more than 2 months. It was news when it happened. Two months later it’s the status quo. Shut the fuck up already CNN.
I, too, am about sick of “famous” (and hell, she’s not even famous until NOW) people getting more than their fifteen minutes of fame simply because they knew somebody or knew somebody that knew somebody.
You are right on the mark, Crunchy. Enough is more than enough. CNN must be having a bad news month. Surely there are more vital topics of news they can headline.
Today at approximately 9:36PM EST, an unidentified person blew up a Bandini plant.
Billy Joe Bob was quoted as saying “I was in the bathroom when bam the [bleep] just went everywhere”.
Sources are looking for a gentleman in his early to mid- thirties going by the name of crappy frog. If anyone has any knowledge of the identity of the suspect you are encouraged to call your local FBI.
James Earl Jones Voice
This is CNN.
/James Earl Jones Voice
Here’s the logic, as I’ve heard it from others: it’s newsworthy because (wait for it!) a high-ranking politician has admitted to having and affair, and a lot of people think he (probably!) murdered her and had aides and such cover it up for him.
So basically, it’s a lot like Clinton, only the murder part is a miniscule bit more believable. But this gives the opposition party opportunities to decry marital infidelity as always 100% unacceptable ever (as I heard our Senate Minority Leader say) and look political-like.
My faith in the grand old Mother Corp. (the CBC) was cemented in 1997 when they bumped the Lewinski affair to no. 2 on the news lineup, preferring to concentrate instead on the somewhat more pressing matter of whether the prime minister of this country did or did not conspire to violently subvert the democratic freedoms of his citizens to kowtow to a foreign dictator.
In the end, it might not be all bad, though. If (when) Condit is proven innocent, maybe we can get some sort of backlash against the media. Who knows, we might even convince them to report for a few seconds on some boring old topic like the patients bill of rights. Ya never know.
Crunchster, I feel your pain. I live right outside DC, so in addition to the CNN coverage, each local station makes the latest non-development their lead. And the Post and Wash. Times discuss it ad nauseam. And everyone at work, on the Metro, and at cocktail parties has a theory and runs it into the ground. Politician wants some tail, gets it from an intern, she disappears. I feel sorry for all those missing girls whose parents don’t happen to be well-off and well connected, because apparently they’re not a priority for the DC police, or indeed anyone.
I want to blow stuff up too. I have some fireworks left over, a slingshot, and live half a block from the Pentagon-will that sufficently draw attention? I think they’d frown on that, though, and as I’m supposed to be getting a clearance soon, I don’t think it’ll be a good idea.
Your title is so eerily true, it’s scary. Back in 1994 it was O.J. O.J O.J. Every waking moment from morning until nighttime it was O.J. No real news, no real updates, just O.J.
I came into journalism class where they have the television on and, lo and behold, O.J. wasn’t on the news! I was so stunned, I was damn near speechless. It took a few minutes to even realize what it was that replaced O.J. as the #1 news story: the Oklahoma Bombing.
I was all primed to rant about the ludicrous waste of air-time on what is esentially a non-event (she’s still missing… Film at 11), but Crunchy has done it better that I would’ve.
Try moving to Tampa Florida… I think you might have your fill of the Sabrina Aisenberg case since It happened here.
How can you say that isn’t news? There has been tons of coverage on it lately since it was determined that the cops basically illegally obtained evidence to “frame” the Aisenbergs? If you ask me that case has more scandal than the condit thing.
At the risk of getting flamed [sub]I’m interested in the condit case[/sub]. Why not…if it weren’t for that I would be watching/reading stories about what? Bill Gates? Kids getting attacked by sharks? Give me some kidnap, murder, and sex anyday!
And the worst part is knowing that is that as soon as CNN finally gets the message and drops it, tabloid papers will pick it up and run with it for the next decade.
“Condit Killed Intern to Cover Up Alien Baby!”
It seems like these things just never die. But there is a bright side. Maybe that’ll finally make the tabloids bump Jon Benet back to the Number 2 “news” spot.
Oh, last night here, the asked Lewinski about the Levy case! Next they’ll ask O.J. about Blake and Condit! Then the three of them will go out and kill Jon Benet’s parents! While doing drugs with Downy Jr.!
You know, I gotta give the press some mad props for not hounding the Levy family madly. I mean, I didn’t even know Chandra had a younger brother until a mention of it today. I am shocked they haven’t been all over him. I think it’s the classiest thing the press has done in awhile.
And while in line today at the CVS, I saw the People issue with the frickin’ huge picture of Chandra on the cover. Granted, there were a few pictures of other missing people, but to have daily coverage in the Post, Times and the evening news AND to have her picture on the cover of People seems like overkill. She’s dead, or she isn’t. Condit lied, but that’s nothing new. Nothing new has happened in this case for a week, yet it’s still fargin’ everywhere. Maybe I should go missing for a couple months and see if I get my picture up.
I was bitching at CNN, which I have no control over for 8 hours everyday I’m at work. I’m exposed to it against my will and they keep bringing it up although nothing changes. I would be griping just the same if they focused on the two girls I mentioned in the OP non-stop for weeks and weeks although nothing new turns up. The point was, in the long run, Levy’s disappearance is no more important than any other person’s disappearance, so stop giving her the extra air time and devote it to something else.
I’m not saying the Aisenberg case isn’t newsworthy, just that apparently CNN thinks it isn’t newsworthy because it isn’t juicy enough. The media decides what is and isn’t news, and nationwide, they’ve all decides Levy’s disappearance is more newsworthy than any other right now. I fail to see how her life is more important than anyone else’s other than the fact she had a Congressman fill 'er up.
If not for the Condit case, you may be hearing updates on something else. I don’t know what, because the media hasn’t been reporting anything else. This is a big country, I’m sure something interesting is going on somewhere. If you want kidnapping, murder, and sex watch soap operas. I’m just sick of every day telling me the same shit I already knew because they had just talked about it yesterday.
