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Thursday, September 20th, 2007 at 1:12 am by Jami

I should just stop watching CNN.

I’m sort of a news junkie. So today, to get my fix, I turned on the international news hour on CNN. A few seconds after I turned the idiot box on, the regular program was interrupted with “breaking news.” You might expect that the assassination of Lebanese lawmaker Antoine Ghanem in a bombing on Wednesday in Beirut would be more than enough to break regularly scheduled programming.

Nope.

The breaking news? A press conference held by OJ Simpson’s lawyers.

WHAT THE BLOODY FLYING FUCK!!!!

The bombing occurred around the same time of the press conference. Why CNN thought OJ was of more immediate importance than an assassination that could destabilize an already embattled region is indicative of a so-called news station that’s more interested in ratings than actual news.

I’m going to expand on this for my next Spwug magazine article because I could go on and on. Suffice it to say, news in this country is really news entertainment. Stations are more interested in making money than presenting facts.

I’ll stop for now. But I’ll probably be bitching about something else the next time I turn on the bloody news. Ugh.

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8 Responses to “Broken News”

  1. AvatarTugboat
    Posted: Sep 20th, 2007 at 8:51 am
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    Yeah, like 6 or 8 anti-Syrian Lebanese lawmakers getting assassinated in a single year is enough to make the news. But one minor criminal (yeah, he’s famous, I know) gets the “breaking news” bit.

    On the plus side, it warms my heart that someone else noticed. :)

  2. AvatarKindless
    Posted: Sep 20th, 2007 at 9:57 am
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    This is why I don’t bother watching tv. Shit like this pains the mind.

  3. AvatarVonKraut
    Posted: Sep 20th, 2007 at 10:41 am
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    The only thing I wonder about is why you are just discovering this now? All news had been this way for awhile. News stations only report big stories that can’t be ignored, what makes them money and what they can spin to fit their agendas.

  4. AvatarJami
    Posted: Sep 20th, 2007 at 10:58 am
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    It’s not that I’ve just discovered it. I think it’s more I’m getting royally fed up with it. I find as I get older, I get more crotchety.

  5. AvatarTugboat
    Posted: Sep 20th, 2007 at 11:54 am
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    I have the same problem. Don’t think you’re the only grumpy old man (without admitting to feeling older after the big 3-0)

  6. AvatarD-W
    Posted: Sep 20th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
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    It’s unfortunate that cable news channels have to compete with cable entertainment since this is the result. It’s really all about ratings and advertising dollars. As long as people tune in for stories about OJ, Britney and Paris, we’ll have to put up with that being headline news. I was listening Washington Post radio the other morning and the host made a comment that he really didn’t want to report on OJ and people who called in said they were tired of the trash. His response, “The producers say we have to do a report so I do a report to keep my job.” Personally, I stopped watching cable news and just read a newspaper or get my fix online. When all else fails I just read a motha fuckin’ book……

  7. AvatarAjanhelendam
    Posted: Sep 21st, 2007 at 5:35 pm
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    Rabin’s assasination wasn’t covered much state side either when it occurred and most of my peers were clueless.

    CNN has been a bit sensationalist for a long long time now, maybe they always were. I was in Egypt during the Gulf War. CNN coverage and American coverage in general were not in alignment with say the rest of the coalition reporting through Reuters European channels and the like. They made riots happening down the street seem a lot worse than they really were and why didn’t they cover the other ones that happened earlier.

    Shark attack coverage always pisses me off, especially since statistically speaking there’s been no change. Everything falls within mean deviation.

  8. AvatarKevin
    Posted: Sep 21st, 2007 at 7:38 pm
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    There are two kinds of people allowed to report on cable. Attention whores and attention grabbers. All the good stuff is online. Just go to the web site and you can just skip the boring stuff like OJ.

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