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katielass · F
@therighttothink50: lmfaoooo....yep, that's how they'd spin it.
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sunrisehawk · 61-69, M
@dunpender: I wonder why some (usually liberals) just have to call names and impugn others with negative stereotypes. I'm a redneck and I make my living dealing with facts as well as opinions. I have never felt uncomfortable with facts, regardless of if I agree or disagree with them.
While I'd be surprised if CNN failed, mainly due to its liberal slant, I'll also be surprised if it maintains its current ratings position.
While I'd be surprised if CNN failed, mainly due to its liberal slant, I'll also be surprised if it maintains its current ratings position.
Pherick · 41-45, M
@sunrisehawk: Liberals have NO claim on naming calling as the libtard/snowflake/triggered phenomenon shows.
jackjjackson · 61-69, M
@dunpender: by who? For what? As usual you appear to be mistaken.
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We are a nation of McDonald's an $5 coffee. We herd into Walmarts and watch "reality" TV as if it should be taken seriously. Do you really think we're holding our media to a higher standard? CNN isn't going anywhere. It'll still keep broadcasting its particular brand of chaos; it's just that it's not your brand.
jackjjackson · 61-69, M
@WhisperingBanshee: firing Griffin is just the start. You're a lapdog.
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@Jackjjacksonjr: Didn't even say I watch CNN.
jackjjackson · 61-69, M
@WhisperingBanshee: then how on earth can you put forth a valid opinion worth considering?😜
therighttothink50 · 56-60, M
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@katielass is wrong once again, as she is on most everything. I'd be surprised if any of the network news channels were shut down in the next two years, including Fox, which has had massive problems recently. Each network has their own dedicated viewers.
Socialclutz · 36-40, M
Shuttered? Do you mean shattered? And by shattered do you mean gone?
katielass · F
@crabbyhermit: I think jack means shuttered as in the doors and windows shuttered, closed down.
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I think many traditional TV channels will start closing shop. Unless they start streaming online for free
katielass · F
Oh I don't know about that.
swirlie · 31-35, F
CNN's little slogan, is that they are the (self-professed) "Most Trusted Name in News".
So, "most trusted" means what? I have followed CNN pretty much daily for a long time prior to the last Presidential Election, but ever since Trump won (..and won fair and square ..and damn all of you straight to hell who try to persuade me otherwise!), all that CNN now focuses on, is breaking news that happens faster than we can all comment on it here at SW.
What I find annoying about CNN these days, is that starting at 6pm, we have Wolfe Blitzer from 6 to 7pm. He talks objectively about what became speculated evidence in Trumpland each day. Wolfe Blitzer by the way, is the biological father of Donner and Blitzen Blitzer who are twins and who were both put up for adoption at age 13 respectively, which is a skeleton-in-the-closet of the Blitzer family 'underground' which most news network viewers don't know about Wolfe.
Then from 7 to 8pm, we have Erin Burnett who talks about what Wolf talked about for an hour and takes an entire hour to reiterate what Wolfe was bitching about.
Then from 8 to 9pm, we have Anderson Cooper who talks about what Wolfe and Erin talked about for 2 hours and takes an entire hour of speaking faster than he is able to actually read the monitor, to reiterate what Wolfe was bitching about and what Erin was so egocentric about.
Then from 9 to 10pm, we have Don Lemon who talks about what wolfe and Erin and Anderson were talking about for the previous 3 hours, asking the same questions that everyone else had written in their daily script, to only reiterate once again what Wolfe was bitching about, what Erin was egocentric about, what Anderson was stuttering and stammering with as he tried to keep up with the rotating flow of the monitor, to then add his own spin on what the news capsule of the day truly meant in reality, which of course is entirely based on Don's speculative, yet guarded approach to tomorrow.
The sad thing is, there has been nothing else for CNN to report around the world, except speculative conclusion each day of what Trump might have been eluding to when Trump either spoke in front of a camera or Tweeted from Florida.
I actually find it hard to listen to CNN anymore at anytime, regardless of who is speaking. It all sounds the same. It is a canned script. Everybody is drinking from the same jug of Kool-Aide, but they each have their own personal straw. And why does some deep-voiced man, whom I visualize in my mind's eye as looking like the midget behind the microphone in the Wizard of Oz movie, keep telling me after every station break that CNN is the "most trusted name in news"?
Which then leads me to agree with Jack about CNN getting "shuttered", but I don't think it will take a full two years to dissolve any credibility that the news network has acquired over the past 27 years. If Donald Trump lasts his full 4 year term (which I fully expect him to), does this then mean that CNN will continue with this climate they have imposed upon themselves for another three and a half years as well?
At what point will CNN actually start broadcasting the world news again, one wonders? And IF they suddenly started to do that, what would precipitate that sudden change for them? Piss-poor ratings perhaps? Or no ratings at all perhaps? Or they quickly get relegated to a Liberal-winged, news speculating network? Don't quite know! But holy shit, is that whole crew getting hard to listen to as they banter on like a bunch of old men bitching about a bunch of old ladies at a quilting bee!
So, "most trusted" means what? I have followed CNN pretty much daily for a long time prior to the last Presidential Election, but ever since Trump won (..and won fair and square ..and damn all of you straight to hell who try to persuade me otherwise!), all that CNN now focuses on, is breaking news that happens faster than we can all comment on it here at SW.
What I find annoying about CNN these days, is that starting at 6pm, we have Wolfe Blitzer from 6 to 7pm. He talks objectively about what became speculated evidence in Trumpland each day. Wolfe Blitzer by the way, is the biological father of Donner and Blitzen Blitzer who are twins and who were both put up for adoption at age 13 respectively, which is a skeleton-in-the-closet of the Blitzer family 'underground' which most news network viewers don't know about Wolfe.
Then from 7 to 8pm, we have Erin Burnett who talks about what Wolf talked about for an hour and takes an entire hour to reiterate what Wolfe was bitching about.
Then from 8 to 9pm, we have Anderson Cooper who talks about what Wolfe and Erin talked about for 2 hours and takes an entire hour of speaking faster than he is able to actually read the monitor, to reiterate what Wolfe was bitching about and what Erin was so egocentric about.
Then from 9 to 10pm, we have Don Lemon who talks about what wolfe and Erin and Anderson were talking about for the previous 3 hours, asking the same questions that everyone else had written in their daily script, to only reiterate once again what Wolfe was bitching about, what Erin was egocentric about, what Anderson was stuttering and stammering with as he tried to keep up with the rotating flow of the monitor, to then add his own spin on what the news capsule of the day truly meant in reality, which of course is entirely based on Don's speculative, yet guarded approach to tomorrow.
The sad thing is, there has been nothing else for CNN to report around the world, except speculative conclusion each day of what Trump might have been eluding to when Trump either spoke in front of a camera or Tweeted from Florida.
I actually find it hard to listen to CNN anymore at anytime, regardless of who is speaking. It all sounds the same. It is a canned script. Everybody is drinking from the same jug of Kool-Aide, but they each have their own personal straw. And why does some deep-voiced man, whom I visualize in my mind's eye as looking like the midget behind the microphone in the Wizard of Oz movie, keep telling me after every station break that CNN is the "most trusted name in news"?
Which then leads me to agree with Jack about CNN getting "shuttered", but I don't think it will take a full two years to dissolve any credibility that the news network has acquired over the past 27 years. If Donald Trump lasts his full 4 year term (which I fully expect him to), does this then mean that CNN will continue with this climate they have imposed upon themselves for another three and a half years as well?
At what point will CNN actually start broadcasting the world news again, one wonders? And IF they suddenly started to do that, what would precipitate that sudden change for them? Piss-poor ratings perhaps? Or no ratings at all perhaps? Or they quickly get relegated to a Liberal-winged, news speculating network? Don't quite know! But holy shit, is that whole crew getting hard to listen to as they banter on like a bunch of old men bitching about a bunch of old ladies at a quilting bee!
swirlie · 31-35, F
@Jackjjacksonjr:
Where I think CNN is walking a fine line these days, is by almost forcing their guest speakers to say things the way in which CNN wants something portrayed to their viewing audience, when in fact, most of CNN's guest speakers are not actually professionally qualified to publicly state anything the way in which CNN wants the news conveyed to and digested by Joe Q. Public.
CNN frequently attempts to act as both Judge and Jury, long before any newsworthy issue arrives in Court. Rather than just reporting the news at hand, CNN attempts to create the news before it even becomes fact. Which news then is factual, but then again, how did the eventual truth get spun to fit-in with their original portrayal of the story? That is the question!
Where I think CNN is walking a fine line these days, is by almost forcing their guest speakers to say things the way in which CNN wants something portrayed to their viewing audience, when in fact, most of CNN's guest speakers are not actually professionally qualified to publicly state anything the way in which CNN wants the news conveyed to and digested by Joe Q. Public.
CNN frequently attempts to act as both Judge and Jury, long before any newsworthy issue arrives in Court. Rather than just reporting the news at hand, CNN attempts to create the news before it even becomes fact. Which news then is factual, but then again, how did the eventual truth get spun to fit-in with their original portrayal of the story? That is the question!
therighttothink50 · 56-60, M
@swirlie:
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -JFK-
[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]”
-John F. Kennedy-
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -JFK-
[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]”
-John F. Kennedy-
swirlie · 31-35, F
Interesting quote, but not really sure any of that insight did JFK very much good at the end of the day.
This quote leads one to wonder if these insights came to JFK's mind the morning after his fiasco with the Bay of Pigs, or had he pondered all of this beforehand?
What these insights were suggesting to him is very true indeed. Unfortunately, JFK was not on the same page as those he worked with in the Kennedy Administration, with all of this knowledge he intuitively carried in his back pocket. He understood the truth, but those around him were dealing from that proverbial 'dark place in the deck of cards' that this quote was specifically made in reference to.
Thanks for correlating J.F. Kennedy's words to the questions I had raised within my post.
This quote leads one to wonder if these insights came to JFK's mind the morning after his fiasco with the Bay of Pigs, or had he pondered all of this beforehand?
What these insights were suggesting to him is very true indeed. Unfortunately, JFK was not on the same page as those he worked with in the Kennedy Administration, with all of this knowledge he intuitively carried in his back pocket. He understood the truth, but those around him were dealing from that proverbial 'dark place in the deck of cards' that this quote was specifically made in reference to.
Thanks for correlating J.F. Kennedy's words to the questions I had raised within my post.
tenente · 100+, M
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jackjjackson · 61-69, M