I tuned into CNN at 1030 and watched for 15 minutes....

...here's a brief run down of the stories:

1. Dead football player. (5 minutes)
2. Tragic death of a two-year old at the hands of her drug-addled mother and mom's alcoholic boyfriend.(3 minutes)
3. 30 seconds on the farce at Annapolis with a good portion of camera time devoted to a fucking smiling, smirking moron (that would be Motherfucker George Bush).
4. 20 seconds on Shitstain Shoots-Guy-In-Face returning to work.
5. Several white men vying to be Ronald Reagan. (1 minute)
6. Dead blonde in Aruba. (3 minutes)
7. Fourbucks retrofitting its espresso machines (2 minutes)

Question for CNN.

DO YOU FUCKING MORONS UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE TWO WARS GOING ON RIGHT NOW?

Took up an entire 30-minute period while I ate lunch yesterday.

rarely do I watch at home anymore. Mostly because of this.

Totally irrlevant.

I am shocked that they didn't mention Britney losing her virginity at 14

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5. Several white men vying to be Ronald Reagan. (1 minute) :rofl:

Dog fighting football player going to jail. (30 seconds)

Football coach loses job = endless talk about the terrible tragedy for him, his family, and the football program.

Young men all over North Carolina losing lives, limbs, and brains to endless futile wars = radio silence.

And I just realized why today. Sure sports are a trivial thing, but for millions of people like myself, for some reason they make life interesting. I dont know why I care so much about my team, but I do, and when the games come, My heart beats fast and I am on pins and needles. So when I learned this morning that Sean Taylor of my Washington Redskins died, I actually shed a tear. I always looked at him as a thug, but nobody deserves this. I dont know where Im going with this, but dont judge people like us who like hearing about these things.

I feel sad when a football coach loses his job. The team in question - which hasn't had a winning season in living memory - is my alma mater. I had season tickets for years, even though my team almost always loses. I sat in the rain watching them lose - and ran onto the field and hugged the players on those rare days when they won. I was there for every home game and many away games until my own sons started playing football. Now I'm at the high school games every Friday night.

But why the silence from the media about the wars? There's nothing wrong with reporting about football and other sports. There's something sickeningly wrong about ignoring these wars.

Im just wondering, because I see the war talked about all the time.


Also, im going to take a wild guess that you went to Duke.

my guess is that it was a local station, but I dont want to assume.

My area, as you surmised, includes many of the military bases in the nation. Lots of local people are affected by the wars, but the local media are usually focused on car crashes and football scores. I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with reporting those things, but there is a glaring omission, day after day.

shrieking about "illegal aliens!!!!" as if that is the single problem we face in this country. No mention of Iraq or Afghanistan, ever.

it has nothing to do with real news.

Actually, I believe there are wars in other locations as well. And in addition to the numerous wars going on all over the world right now, there are a lot of other important things occurring. The meeting in Annapolis, as an attempt to prevent future wars, is one such event.

...as in farce. This is Motherfucker's Christmas present to his concubine Condomlezza.

I remember when CNN used to be a halfway decent news organization. That was about 20 years ago.

MSNBC isn't any better, apart from KO who actually covers the matters that pertain to the running of this country.

What does #7 refer to, i.e., retrofitting "fourbucks" (starbucks?) expresso machines... (retrofitting for what?)

Sorry, but you piqued my curiosity.

...after Fourbuck changed their equipment out.

it's the job of the news to remind us of that every 15 minutes?

There have been 12,525,314 significant events in the world so far today. How would you choose which ones to broadcast?

Perhaps reading a newspaper would be more appropriate-- even though it might not meet such high standards, at least you can skip over the parts you find irrelevant.

many people only get their news from teevee and when it's junk news that's broadcast, is there any wonder many Americans haven't a clue as to what is going on?

Cut the cable now: save money, starve the republicon propaganda beast.

In the old days, Greek theatre held up a mirror to the society to induce terror and pity and teach deeper lessons about ourselves. Later, Religion replaced the theatre as the place where you learned these lessons. Basically, mythology informing people how to ponder that which is not quantifiable.....

Today, we lack a common mythology and the only thing we have replacing it is a baldly corporate controlled "news" industry that shows us how celebrities and those that become celebrated through their victimhood live and die and THAT is supposed to replace Oedipus, Electra, Hamlet, Lear, Abraham, Moses and Jesus........

It isn't news, it's instruction by a small cabal on how to think.

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You make that one up all by yourself?

Have a nice day.

Wash. Journal's first 2 hrs. were devoted to showing the studio/hosts of a radio show so I frequently clicked to CNN for something interesting. forget that, the same 3 or 4 stories repeated endlessly.

what a farce america has become.

jesus, mary, and joseph

But I guess that's why people think the media is "liberal" - we all know only liberals enjoy those lattes.

there doesn't seem to be any actual reporting from these countries, even when the media morons do discuss them.

jeez

WJ and gave a detailed report. I can't remember if that was before or after Junior's surge.

Haven't had it for over a year.

"We want to own your mind too."

Not that they arent.

same over at MSNBC -

Isnt that basically the definition of breaking news?

in flashing graphics, graphics slide in from the side saying NEW VIDEO. They are watering down what is breaking news, by stating every story is breaking news.

eating habits..:wtf:

These last seven year have been a lotta laughs. I want to invite what's left of the Free World here to see for themselves, and carry back to their nations what National Psychoisis is like in a nation that was so recently strong and free.

Watch, look, and learn, for if they are successful here, then you are next!