A post I wrote but didn’t publish after the State of the Union speech about the silliness that is CNN. Posting it now speaks to my laziness today, and something is better than nothing. And for me, any opportunity to trash CNN is timeless.
Eric Alterman gets it right. He pretty much always does ( I admit to a prejudice because he published my letters back in the days when Americans hadn’t yet forgotten that we were/are engaged in two [now three?] wars). Here, he eviscerates CNN for their crappy news judgement.
Fingernails on a blackboard
The network, with annoying regularity, exhibits a puffed up sense of self-importance. In his column, Alterman goes after them for their journalistic cluelessness after they broadcast the ‘response to the response to the State of the Union’, delivered by that towering American intellect and historian, Michelle Bachman.
CNN alone mistook it for real news. They were played. But I suppose a network that likes Wolf Blitzer as its wise old man (will he never retire?) has an expectation of poor judgement.
(By the way, they do have an international edition which I understand is pretty good – why oh why do we get only the crap?)
You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or democracy. But you cannot have both.
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Moe I was listened to him the other day on the No-Fly Zone and I wanted to yell at him slow down and think before you try to shape American policy….
I’mn sure they ase well aware this crazy stuff puts them back on top in the ratings…..So he’s going for it….
UGH!!!!
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Exactly. The constant promo really grates on me – every interview is exclusive, every important story is coming up after the next commercial, and the constant reiteration of ‘the best blah blah blah’.
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Let’s give credit where credit is due: CNN’s ability to spin 90 seconds of video footage into eight hours of programming is a pretty impressive feat.
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🙂 They (and, to be fair, all the others) also seem to have decided that if there’s video for it, it’s news.
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