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01-16-2006, 08:25 AM | #1 | |
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CNN suckage
Jesus. I just wanted to document this 60 seconds of complete non-news stupidity of morning anchors covering this really difficult story, "It's warm". As some of you know I often watch cable news as background as I work by myself. This bold dialogue took place on Friday morning and I'm sure it will mark a high point in the channel's history. From their official transcript.
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I just about lost it as I watched the above 60 seconds. It's not the sort of thing that should make one lose it, but I've been so annoyed for so long that by the time she repeated that final question, "what is going on here?" I could only yell back at the TV "You're the goddamn news, you find out and you tell us! That's your fucking job!!" At this point I turned to Fox News, which is my practice when CNN is being moronic, and they were talking about Iran's nuclear program. So yeah, the highest IQ morning show these days is the typically-shallow, sensational and righty Fox. |
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01-16-2006, 08:47 AM | #2 |
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I was grinding my teeth just reading that.
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01-16-2006, 12:31 PM | #3 |
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you sure Matt Lauer and Katie Couric didn't somehow end up on CNN???
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01-16-2006, 04:53 PM | #4 |
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CNN's redundance is what pisses me off. It seems like an endless loop of.... the same fu@#ing thing every ...what.... 90 seconds? While I have my coffee and prepare to brave the business world each morning (usually for about 1-11/2 hrs) I find myself pre-quoting the O'briens. By the time I turn it off to go vomit, I have their dialogue memorized to a tee. Hell I could have their jobs and I'm a dumbass Marine.
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01-16-2006, 05:19 PM | #5 |
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I watched that show once for about 10 minutes, and went back to Fox and Freinds before I puked.
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01-16-2006, 05:26 PM | #6 |
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Christ, people still get their news from the television?? That's what the computer is for.
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01-16-2006, 05:28 PM | #7 |
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Hm--clod's message is listed as posted at 6:26 and my computer clock says it's 6:21--wtf?
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01-16-2006, 05:30 PM | #8 | |
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01-16-2006, 05:33 PM | #9 |
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This is fixed
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01-16-2006, 07:50 PM | #10 |
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About a week ago, it warm and pleasant in Philly, as it had been for awhile. The local morning weather comes on and to be honest there wasn't much to say....same, same.
But nooooooo, they spent 8 minutes ranting and raving about an ice storm and a blizzard we had a dozen years ago just to hear themselves rant and rave in good weather(wo)man fashion.
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01-16-2006, 07:51 PM | #11 |
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Unlike UT's punctuation.
Sounds like it was well to miss this. I watch a fair bit of Fox, having been turned on to it through the outraged bellowings and raucous heehaws about FNC by the more leftist people I've seen online. They actually tried telling people Fox was no good, if you can believe it. Now, in general, I don't trust the Left to put the cap back on a bottle of Four Roses without crossing the threads (twenty Texas points to anyone who catches the literary reference), so I consequently gave Fox a good look. Now I don't bother watching much else for the news.
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01-16-2006, 08:57 PM | #12 | |
I think this line's mostly filler.
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01-16-2006, 09:35 PM | #13 | |
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01-16-2006, 11:43 PM | #14 |
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Punishment, HM? You have extremely strange notions of pain. I want you to know that. :p
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01-17-2006, 12:35 AM | #15 |
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The only time I watch CNN or CNNLite (Headline) is when I'm checking to see if they have a better camera angle at press conferences or congressional hearings that everybody is covering.
(although for the hearings I tend to prefer C-SPAN because they don't talk over the testimony with pointless color commentary)
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