What's The "Situation" With "The Situation Room?"

[CrackpotAmerica]

I have to say, CNN has spiraled downward recently. But "The Situation Room," CNN's new program, has hit a brand new low.

From what I can gather. This show is nothing more than a half-assed "repackaging" of the news into a brand new and even less palatable flavor of tripe. The new format seems to be centered around a very expensive television monitor that flashes very expensive graphics around as Wolf Blitzer (that can't be his real name) scurries about stuttering half stories with other scurrying correspondents around the globe.

And yet, with all of this glitz and glimmer, we are left to witness their lack of reporting on stories that have much more impact to our common realities than exposing that the CNN reports from Crawford are no less than 9 miles away from the actual Bush ranch (they actually admitted that they were reporting from some guy or gal's back yard!)

The screen flips washes and blinks all sorts of text files, washes and graphics; but the game of "news Keno" never hits the winner, A.K.A. Cindy Sheehan, Karl Rove, e.t.c. Instead, the viewer is forced to suffer through some annoying observation by what's his face about raw goods as he waves a gallon of milk around.

I am dumbfounded as to how dumb these multi national companies think that we really are. It seems they aren't so sophisticated either as the only thing they can think to do is dangle some shiny keys in front of us to keep us watching. We should all tell these outlets that the shiniest keys they could dangle would be the return of actual news to their respective networks.

It seems that "the most trusted name in news" has at last bottomed out. And so, I suppose we are privileged to witness the death of the American Media in our lifetimes. At least we won't watch it go down without seeing some pretty nifty graphics along the way.

I have forwarded this message to "The Situation Room." If you are as displeased with this program, please join me in complaining!

Keep up the good fight!

[skids]

1. Hey, since Cindy is a "threat to national security"

Then shouldn't the "Situation Room" be all over her story?

Just wondrin.

[CrackpotAmerica]

2. And the Anomaly is Revealed! n\t

[geckosfeet]

6. You would think so,,, but its not news til the WH press office says so.

Then the MSM parrots can squawk !

Bwwaaak bwaawk bwaawk. Wolfy wants a cracker, Wolfy wants a cracker. Hello. Hello. Bwaaaawwwwk, bwaawwk. Evil terroists lurking. Bwaaaak,,, evil terrosists lurking.

[The Traveler]

3. I always thought the name "Wolf Blitzer"

would have made a great name for a Panzer tank commander. Can't you see Wolf's little bearded head protuding from the great rolling, rumbling mass of metal, his right hand raised palm forward? Can't you feel the Sturm and Drang?

[CrackpotAmerica]

5. He's the kind of guy that...

I used to see bringing his kid to swim naked at the Y when I was little,

CREEEEEPY!!

[samsingh]

4. about CNN being the most trusted name in news

that slogan is a gross misrepresentation of the facts. They are trusted by something like 30% of the viewing public, which happens to be higher than other news organizations. It's like saying my 'F' is still higher than your 'F'.

In other words, all news organizations are bullshit and 70% of the viewers know that.