Um, yeah, is there a reason that CNN should cover this story? If I run outside my house and yell the “Kill the Jews!” and a news van is going by, will that make CNN too? They say it’s a “CEO” in order to make the story seem important, but this is a pretty small company. It’s not like the CEO of Wal-mart or Intel said something like this. They might as well have just said, “Well off professional woman doesn’t think a woman should be President.” Well stop the presses! Either lots of women think that, in which case it’s not news, or it’s a very rare view to hold, in which case it’s not news. If someone who had a major influence on the process said this, like Barack Obama, or a Republican politician with clout said it, thus causing a furor, then it would be news. How in the blue hell is it news that someone, somewhere, doesn’t think a woman should be President? Well color me informed!
what happens on social media is the news now
don’t blame CNN blame the audience
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In her Facebook post, Rios wrote of the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency.
"If this happens – I am moving to Canada. "
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I think she mis-pronounced ‘Florida’.
She may not want to move up here. We’ve had a female PM before. Kim Campbell
Great job spreading the “news”!
On the one hand, I don’t count on CNN for anything approaching good news reporting. And yes, a 24 hour news cycle means having to generate content, and that means mining social media to find a good ‘hook.’ They have determined that stuff like this drives site traffic, and you know what? They are right.
That said, the concept of a female CEO (private sector) citing biblical basis for not wanting what is effectively a female CEO (public sector) is the sort of compartmentalization that should no longer shock me, but does ping my irony meter.
Yes, but then you were so outraged by her, you guys destroyed the entire political party that created her. See, you learned your lesson.
Last week CNN had a story about how ‘on point’ Posh Spice’s style was in the 90’s, and every damn week they seem to have a story about a Kartrashion’s bum.
It’s become a parody of a news outlet that SNL couldn’t outdo!
I harken back to a few days ago when I saw that the Net was AFLAME! with a huge backlash against Apple’s new multiracial emojis. Then I looked closer and saw that all the stories were about the same blogger, who somehow got her stupid article reprinted by major news organizations around the world and her face on a bunch of TV news interviews talking about her stupid article. Teach the controversy!
I beg to differ. If lots of women think that then it is most definitely news. One hopes it’s not true and a facebook post by some random twit is certainly not proof that it is, so I support your rant, just not that little part of it.
I should have been clearer. If lots of women think that, it’s news, it’s just not news to report on one who thinks like that. Rather, they should have taken a poll and reported, “22% of women don’t think a woman should be President”. that would be very interesting and relevant. What one woman says on social media is not, unless as I said before, she has a major impact on the process. Like a major political figure or donor.
Well, sure. Like, it’d be news if Hillary said it…
That sounds like, you know, work.
Last week, a guy landed a gyrocopter on the White House lawn and was immediately taken into custody. Three days later, the CNN news feeds on the monitors here at work had the headling, “Gyrocopter pilot taken into custody.” Remember how much they milked the various plane crashes? Their idea of “breaking news” is “maybe somebody hasn’t heard this yet…”
So, about par for the course for CNN.
I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!
“What do you want me to do, take a quixotic stand, print the truth about everything including bad medicine, impure food and crooked stock market offerings, and lose all my advertising contracts and go out of business ?" -* J.David Stern - Owner of the Washington post in 1993, Witness to a century- By George Seldes *
:Sigh:, much better to report about this to help ensure a horse race so as to get more political advertisement money.
OP missed a trick. The CEO in question runs Go Ape Marketing in Dallas. This was a publicity stunt.
Also, I see that Carly Fiorina has expressed her disagreement.
Go Ape marketing? Now there’s a name that inspires confidence.
I’m pretty sure CNN counts things as “news” if it’s popular on the social media sites. That way the grandparents that still watch CNN can feel like they are caught up.
I think all modern women-- born after 1900-- can only think this suggested lifestyle of leaving men in charge because the bible tells you so is absolutely fucking frightening. Reason #2092 to abolish this crap: religion brings masochism.