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| Re: I will admit ... said by SLD :Yeah, CNN is milking this cow to the point that they're reasserting their reputation. Jackson gets a bigger frontpage spot than 911 every day since his death. Even now, after it is said-and-done, look at the homepage. This would be more correct... | |
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2 edits | Re: I will admit ... The MJ coverage shows where the lack of priorities seem to be, and thats kind of sad. To see networks overwhelmed like that though would be an interesting study. This would also be a good time to look at how Time Warners network handled this. This would be a good assessment of their network to show thaat caps do nothing for congestion when everyone piles on at once. To the person below...I was just ranting because I was sick of hearing about a "pop" star that is being portayed as a great humanitarian.
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| Re: I will admit ... said by S_engineer :The MJ coverage shows where the lack of priorities seem to be, and thats kind of sad. To see networks overwhelmed like that though would be an interesting study. This would also be a good time to look at how Time Warners network handled this. This would be a good assessment of their network to show thaat caps do nothing for congestion when everyone piles on at once. To the person below...I was just ranting because I was sick of hearing about a "pop" star that is being portayed as a great humanitarian. OK if your so sick of hearing about him then why do you continue talking about him? thats what I can't understand people bitch about whats in the news but the subject doesn't "go away" because of people that can't or won't LET IT GO!!!!! HE'S GONE MOVE ON!!! | |
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| Re: I will admit ... Who said anything about gov't mandating priorities? And what more was he than a "pop" star? If your priority is Michael Jackson at a time when we're our soldiers are involved in a war on 2 fronts, and North Korea is trying to instigate a 3rd front, all while we're attempting to claw our way out of a recession/depression...then thats actually pretty freakin sad!~ -- BF69~~~Please stop suffocating gerbils! | |
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| Re: I will admit ... said by S_engineer :Who said anything about gov't mandating priorities? And what more was he than a "pop" star? If your priority is Michael Jackson at a time when we're our soldiers are involved in a war on 2 fronts, and North Korea is trying to instigate a 3rd front, all while we're attempting to claw our way out of a recession/depression...then thats actually pretty freakin sad!~ Well said. So yet another celebrity whose last big hit was 20 years ago dies of a drug overdose. Exactly how is this "news"? If his private life wasn't so bizarre, I doubt he'd get this type of attention.
What really annoys me about this was how it took 100% of the attention of the world press away from Iran, at a time when world scrutiny may do some good. The ruling clergy there may be brutes, but they have asperations of portraying themselves as a legitimate government, and videos of peaceful protestors being shot in the streets don't help their cause. But the program directors at the news channels thought it more important to bring us Michael 24x7 instead. I'll cringe the next time I hear one of their ads proclaim them to be "The Place for Politics". More likely "The Place for dimwitted National Enquirer Readers".
I even heard one of MSBNC's on-air personalities dismiss complaints on a radio talk show with the comment "you don't like it? why don't you go spend time reading the Stimulous Bill instead?". 'talk about insulting your regular audience. | |
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| Re: I will admit ... said by SLD :Your choice of words confuses me. If you think CNN has a reputation to destroy then your confusion should have been quite clear before I responded to your post... | |
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1 edit | Re: I will admit ... said by SLD :It just that "reasserting" has no function in that sentence. But maybe that is some Alabama vernacular... Seriously? California must to be worse off then I thought... | |
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1 edit | Re: I will admit ... News used to be something that wasn't driven so much by profit. The networks provided it as a "obligation" to their viewers. Since cable "news" has become popular, "news" is now thought of as a profit machine. Thus, good reporting dies and is replaced by popular "reporting". Fox made a mint off this, though they don't really report, but regurgitate other sources and discuss and spin it in a way that appeals to their wacko viewers. | |
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| Re: Baloney, Karl Bode ad-libbed the "strain". Akamai stated quote: While this event was supported without any issues for our broadcast customers, it is also important to point out that Akamai continued to deliver perfect quality of service for the remainder of our 2,800 enterprise customers.
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| Re: Is it over....??? Yea I am getting a little tired of hearing nothing but talk about Michael Jackson everywhere and now for the next 500000 years all we'll hear is about his kids. Such a damn mess. -- The Internet is about to go down....it is actually. | |
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| Re: Is it over....??? They will stick to MJ until the next big tabloid story. The best thing that ever hapend to Gary Condom was 911. He was the big story and everyone (FOX/CNN/MSNBC/etc) had 24/7 coverage of him and the missing girl. Once 911 hapend he was old news and barely got a mention.
The go from one big sensational story to the other and use politics as the filler. They only care about one thing, ratings. | |
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| Re: Is it over....??? said by battleop :They will stick to MJ until the next big tabloid story. The best thing that ever hapend to Gary Condom was 911. He was the big story and everyone (FOX/CNN/MSNBC/etc) had 24/7 coverage of him and the missing girl. Once 911 hapend he was old news and barely got a mention. The go from one big sensational story to the other and use politics as the filler. They only care about one thing, ratings. CNN is hoping for another Mideast war or a Latin American war(Honduras, Venezuela, Nicaragua) to cover, so they can get back some of their viewers and advertisers.
Even the trouble in Iran over the election did nothing for them since the Iranian gov't wouldn't let the reporters leave their offices. -- My BLOG .. .. Internet News .. .. My Web Page | |
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Do men really want to get married? Old lady finds fawn, beats it with a shovel | |
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| Re: Is it over....??? said by SLD :How about these quality headlines (front page): Do men really want to get married? Old lady finds fawn, beats it with a shovel Those are the Lifetime channel movies of the week...didn't you see the commercials? -- BF69~~~Please stop suffocating gerbils! | |
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| Re: Is it over....??? said by S_engineer :said by SLD :How about these quality headlines (front page): Do men really want to get married? Old lady finds fawn, beats it with a shovel Those are the Lifetime channel movies of the week...didn't you see the commercials? LOL! Gotta love the estrogen channel(s)... NOT! | |
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| Re: Is it over....??? said by N3OGH :Let's Shake, Let's shout (shout). Put that body right in the ground! One less kid toucher on the loose. Humanity improves, life goes on.... He was a kid toucher? Proof? -- I'll do it later. | |
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| Re: The proof that he touched kids..... said by fonzbear2000 :Is the fact that he paid a family $24 million of a boy who had VERY DAMAGING evidence against him not to come forward with that evidence. No...it's not. That kid's father (who is low life) told his kid to say those thing for money. Period. The kid, now an adult, wants to recant...but cannot because of the legal issues it would cause for him. Remember, He got a BUNCH a money on a lie. The Jacksons could come after him legally. There is even a question of extortion......... | |
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