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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 10:32 PM
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What the hell did they do with Aaron Brown? Anyone watching CNN?
Good grief, I am having trouble distinguishing the show tonight from the 700 Club or something. It's UNREAL. I'm aghast. And yet I can't turn it off, tho, it's just too, too ... unfreakinbelievable.

I may have to leave soon, tho...

:puke:
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 10:33 PM
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1. I cannot turn on any of the news stations anymore....
Whazzup?
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dave502d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 10:37 PM
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4. Same hear. n/t
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 10:35 PM
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2. They are covering the Book "The Purpose Driven Life". The whole
show!

I'm guessing that they had two hours to fill and went out and filled it. Is timely. That girl in Atlanta was reading the book to the killer.

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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 10:40 PM
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6. They did that they other day!!!...
Hubby had the news on and i could not believe what i was hearing...they were covering the hostage's story and they did a segue into this Jesus Company that saved her. But, it was like they had taped it for some other purpose and then just popped it in. Very weird.
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eaprez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 10:41 PM
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7. They devoted the entire hour last night to the entire story....
...man kills judge and others, is on the run, surrenders....I thought the story was over Saturday? All the news they could be covering and they devote hours to this? Have they devoted an hour to Tom Delay? Have they devoted an hour exploring "fake news"? Nope...just this crap.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 10:58 PM
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13. I don't think they are devoting time to the Atlanta stuff. They are
devoting it to the book. Hopefully that means that they can then do more stories on the truth of the Bush WH.

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Goldmund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 11:30 PM
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16. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you're kidding....right?
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 11:35 PM
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17. Maybe their lawyers are tied up in "equal time" details... could happen!
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regnaD kciN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-05 10:56 PM
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29. It's almost Holy Week...
The CMC is allowed two coverings of Christanity per se (i.e., not including Taligbornagain politics) annually -- just before Christmas, and just before Easter. You can tell it's that time of year when Time, Newsweek, or both run cover stories on "New light on the Christmas story" or "What really happened at Easter?" I suspect that's what's behind CNN doing an entire show on a "Christianity in the world today" topic. Look on the bright side...it could have been about the "Left Behind" series.

:eyes:
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 10:37 PM
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3. You think that's sick, Flip to CNN/Headline News Now
I feel Ill just thinking of it.
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Changenow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 10:37 PM
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5. CNN thinks they can attract more viewers by
acting more like Fox, but Fox viewers aren't goning anywhere.
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 10:50 PM
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8. This isn't really like Fox
This is flat-out religious programming posing as NEWS/Feature. It's utterly bizarre. And a REAL turnoff to someone like me who is basically fairly anti-religious (tho pro-spirituality).
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eaprez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 10:54 PM
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9. sort of like propaganda posing as a news feature, huh?
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cestpaspossible Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 10:56 PM
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10. Karl Rove has Brown's balls in a jar on his desk.
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zulchzulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 10:57 PM
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11. I'm CNN-free...and oh yeah...it feels so good!
Fuck cable news.
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pen dragon Donating Member (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 10:58 PM
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12. like i said in another thread
Why do you think CNN was giving so much airtime to that hostage. There had to be a reason for it, and this is it. To shill books for the religious right.

The Christian News Network. Enjoy
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 11:05 PM
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14. Please. Can you imagine how hard it is to find interesting stories on
Christianity? Let them bleed this one dry. The girl also gives out a message on empathy. The girl seems to be a devout and guileless. This is the type of inspirational Christian story that will sink Bush!! This is an inspiring story of empathy (I could not have felt so much empathy for a murderer - I hate sociopaths as a rule... bad stalking incidents when I was in my twenties & early 30s by some freak whose persona was totally put on and who liked to see people struggle endlessly to assuage his own inadequacy.. he destroyed my life again and again. So I can tell you that this was a miracle of sorts.

Leave CNN be. This is not the Christianity that suits Karl Rove's needs. This is devout and empathetic Christianity. This is what Christianity is supposed to be about. Spread it!!!
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Anakin Skywalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-16-05 11:22 PM
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15. Nevermind.
Edited on Wed Mar-16-05 11:22 PM by Anakin Skywalker
*self-deleted*
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high density Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-05 12:19 AM
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18. I'm convinced that CNN and MSNBC are run by idiots
If they genuinely want to make money, they'd notice that Fox News already has captured the entire audience of people who want to watch slanted talk show bullshit. I'd love to have a real 24 hour news station that cuts the crap. I don't want liberal bias, I just want the facts. Every time I think MSNBC may step up to the plate and fill this void, they do something stupid like hiring Tucker Carlson.
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OTownGuy Donating Member (70 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-05 12:28 AM
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19. Thread i started here
On this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3286320&mesg_id=3286320

So glad to hear other ppl share the same view! I think NEWSNIGHT COMPLETLY Jumped the Shark 2nit. What the hell happened!?? The same show that had Aaron visibly LIVID during the whole gay marriage amendment thing. The man who interviwed Maureen Dowd of ALL ppl.
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-05 12:54 AM
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20. It's on Oberman also...
#2


good lord.
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zann725 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-05 03:57 AM
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21. George Soros recently bought a lot of CNN stock. Be interesting to see if
things change any.
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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-05 06:58 AM
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22. Sounds Interesting . . .
Do you have a link?
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-05 07:59 AM
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24. i sure hope so!
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-05 07:51 AM
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23. i find it very odd that both Brian Nichols parents and the author of book
Edited on Thu Mar-17-05 07:57 AM by ElsewheresDaughter
are both living and working in Africa...Nichol's mother who was a big muck muck at the IRS now lives in Tanzania and the author is working there and that both Ashely Smith and the 2nd highest ranking INS/Customs agent both only moved to Atlanta 2 days before the the killings and no body there knows anything about them ... how convenient considering the WH's faithbased climate and bush's secert shadow gov't and the totality of it all.

the massive push is on
:tinfoilhat:
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Tom Rinaldo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-05 08:22 AM
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25. Clarification for those who missed it
It wasn't Aaron Brown hosting the show, it was Paula Zahn sitting in. Ugh. And it was an extended Christian propaganda piece. I am not anti Christian, but I am anti passing off a sermon as news.
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-05 08:24 AM
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26. spot on!
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-05 11:25 PM
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30. I'm definitely anti-Christian propaganda passed off as news too.
That was REALLY ugly. Tonight's was not much better. I posted another thread about it.
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-05 07:52 PM
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27. I finally found the answer to your question (Yes, it is a stupid reason)
The reason CNN did an entire show on this Christian book is, and I don't know all the name of these people because I'm not a Cable News POD anymore, but according to the local Atlanta (radio) News: The Single Mom, who called the police which lead to the capture of Nichols (the guy that shot and killed 4 while escaping the Atlanta Court room), was said to have read several chapters, from this book, to Nichols, which lead to his surrender.

He probably just wanted her to stop reading.
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-05 11:29 PM
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31. That's not an answer, it's a reiteration of the problem
Edited on Thu Mar-17-05 11:33 PM by Eloriel
An "answer" would be soemthing along the lines of:

* The newsroom has been taken over by fundies
* Someone at CNN is obsessessed with Ashley Smith
* etc.

Yours is simply another way of explaining or describing what the problem is.
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-05 11:40 PM
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32. What are ya', Some sort of Fancy Pants En'lish Per'Fessor?
:silly: (Read the above line with the TEXAS accent * uses when Tau'kin ta' Red State Folks)

Sorry, I was never an A+ student in English class, I'll work on it.:silly:
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Joey Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-17-05 08:33 PM
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28. Brown is a Moron
I can't stand that bastard. CNN wants to be just like Faux News, but they don't have the balls. We need a new station to replace CNN.
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