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pharflung
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:35 am Post subject: What would you like to tell CNN? |
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Do you watch CNN?
Me, I have trouble swallowing the thick sandwich of self-glorifying house ads and ads for luxury hotels to get at the thin slice of lunch meat they call news. And I am not interested in cricket or yacht racing.
Am I missing anything?
Well, it might have been interesting to see this interview of Roseanne Barr by Larry King. It seems Larry refuses to let anyone show him how to use the Internet, saying "What do you punch little buttons and things?"
When Barr offered to show him, he basically said it was a woman's thing, and he wasn't interested.
This is what they have been hyping with all their self-congratulatory house ads about Larry King's anniversary?
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/15/larry-king-internet/
Sounds like CNN needs to hire Roseanne Barr. But it won't happen because CNN isn't CNN anymore; it's Time-Warner (AOL). And a big corporation like that is in the business of making money, not making people mad.
So here's what I would like to tell CNN management:
Cut out the house ads and run news, instead. More people will watch, including me. CNN is supposed to be a 24-hour news channel, not a 1 hour news channel/23 hour hype channel.
There. I feel better already.
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:39 am Post subject: |
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| I would tell people like Wolf Blitzer: "Well done. Keep it up." |
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postfundie
Joined: 28 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:54 am Post subject: |
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larry king is too still going through a period of grief concerning Anna Nicole.....
I'd like to see them hit Michael Moore back a few times....'Mr. Everything I said came true in F911" ha...yeah we invaded Afgn to put a gas line in for some companies ok.....
also I think they should give some barbiturates to that Quest guy...He's nice and all but to over the top.....also less crickettt crapola. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:00 am Post subject: |
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Ah. You are all discussing "CNN International Edition."
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pharflung
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:04 am Post subject: |
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Gopher:
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| Ah. You are all discussing "CNN International Edition." |
Yeah, that's what they have on the cable system here in Korea. It's the only CNN I can get.
Am I missing something?
How do you watch Headline News, and how do you watch it while running???
It would be interesting to put the programming side by side with the other CNN feeds to see the differences. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:09 am Post subject: |
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koon_taung_daeng
Joined: 28 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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i hate CNN its like watching a rated G version of the iraq war.
they need to report the truth and make it a little more uncensored |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| koon_taung_daeng wrote: |
| i hate CNN... |
Easiest response ever: then do not watch CNN. Watch something else. |
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koon_taung_daeng
Joined: 28 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| koon_taung_daeng wrote: |
| i hate CNN... |
Easiest response ever: then do not watch CNN. Watch something else. |
I dont watch it i get all my news off the internet. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:52 am Post subject: |
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| koon_taung_daeng wrote: |
| I dont watch it i get all my news off the internet. |
Great. Problem solved. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:24 am Post subject: |
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I would like them to quadruple, at least, the number of stories they cover on any given day. Also, and I know that this is cliche, I would really like for a celeb news to be tossed in the garbage can. Larry King should be moved to 3 am and forced to interview people with minds and ideas. Also, the ticker has got to go. Lou Dobbs should go too. More in-depth stories. And so on.
Speaking of, Blohan is on the way to the clink. I love it! |
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bucheon bum
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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| yeah cnn intl. is dull and boring these days. Not sure why anyone would choose it over BBC world. Hell, Al-Jazeera in English shows more news than CNN does. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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Dump Wolf Blitzer- he is dumb, dull and repetitive. Besides that I guess he is okay. Except for his short man complex. Did I say boring?
Dump Lou "never met an immigrant I liked, except my wife" Dobbs. His brand of mindless, stereotype peddling populism has no place on the news. He is worse than shameless. If he is so concerned about the war on the middle class, I think he should enlist for the front lines.
Even Anderson Cooper is completely over exposed. Please, he cried in New Orleans. This does not make him a world class newsman.
If you think CNN International is bad, try the domestic version.  |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| BJWD wrote: |
I would like them to quadruple, at least, the number of stories they cover on any given day. Also, and I know that this is cliche, I would really like for a celeb news to be tossed in the garbage can. Larry King should be moved to 3 am and forced to interview people with minds and ideas. Also, the ticker has got to go. Lou Dobbs should go too. More in-depth stories. And so on.
Speaking of, Blohan is on the way to the clink. I love it! |
Yes, then there is Larry King. Who in hell watches his tripe? |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, then. Seems to take care, yet again, of what you stand against. What news sources do you people approve of, if any? |
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