CNN, Doing Interesting Things Today...

[Infinite Hope]

Surely there will be more, but currently I've noticed two unusual things. One, they were translating cockpit recorders into words. They used "dat" instead of "that" which is odd considering I've never seen substitute slang put on cable news transcript before like that.

The second thing is, they were discussing those running for President and showed 3-second clips showing the faces of Obama, then Clinton, then Giuliani, then Obama again. I found it interesting that 1)they didn't show a second Republican since they showed two Democrats and 2)they showed Obama twice.

[patrice]

1. I'm tired of others telling me whom I support, who "I am for ___ , for president."

I am thinking about working for Kucinich.

Unless Gore, Dean, Edwards, Clark, Boxer or Sebelius declare.

[demnan]

7. Edwards has declared

n/t

[illinoisprogressive]

2. I really don't think it's means anything about the clips.

And, the msm is getting a bit burned out on the gop. They are ready for change as well.

[Bitwit1234]

3. Trying to make people believe

democrats are the ones falling over themselves to run. When it is the exact opposite. There are so many republicans that when you list them you are sure to forget a couple.

As usual they are just trying to smear dems.

[PATRICK]

4. One might suspect

if one harbored mean little suspicions about corporate motives, that the MSM special interest in black candidates, whether Colin Powell or Obama, crest on MLK day and otherwise seem a serendipitous pitch toward increased black viewership as a consumer group with leaders outside the mainstream traditional black leadership which slams the media with cause and effectiveness.

How cynical of me.

As for low profiling the disgusting GOP fare, they have good reason. Did they choose self made media hero Guiliani just for consumer star quality? Surely not. It would be impolite to subject the secret pre-verbal infighting of GOP dauphins to common scrutiny.

[illinoisprogressive]

5. I reall don't think CNN is trying to tell anyone who to vote for.

It's so early. They are interested right now in the stories I just don't think they have any opinion yet.
They are bored with the same faces and stories so, with some new faces they are concentrating on that right now.

[Lowell]

6. CNN is not very interesting really

The past few days all they have talked about is a "miracle in Missouri" and guess what, it snowed in Colorado. Duh. I can hardly stand to watch them any more. If it wasn't for Jack Cafferty I wouldn't visit that channel at all.

[Evergreen Emerald]

8. Distraction...

The middle east is gearing up for WWIII. Our economy is in the toilet with the rich gaining while the middle class become poor. Everyday there are clues to the environmental catastrophe that awaits us due to our inaction. The constitution is slowly being undermined as independent prosecutors are being replaced with neo-cons and the Attorney General of the United Stated is advocating for an abolishment of the judicial branch of government (we don't need no stinkin oversight).

While the media distracts us with propaganda fed to them by the neo-cons, the soldiers have taken it upon themselves to write to congress and ask them to stop this insanity wondering why we are not helping them out of the hell they are living. And we sit and argue over Obama's name and whether Simon is an ass.

[EST]

9. I watched all of five or six minutes each of cnn and msnbc, just

after twelve CST, and, on both channels, they were trying to insinuate that Clinton, Obama, and Edwards were all criticizing each other - hardball style - and then played clips to supposedly support their accusations.

Not one of these hopefuls said a damn thing against the other: each saying, when pressed to say something derogatory of the other, that the person would have to talk about the point themselves.

I listened pretty carefully and the candidates were carefully polite with the normal political platitudes, yet the talking hairdos and their guests went right on pretending that the democratic entrants were all shithouse door slamming each other.
I was exasperated and uncharacteristically snorting and yelling at the tube. Gah...what doltish goobers.

Of course, having to talk, between commercials, for three hours while saying nothing at all about nothing at all-(sigh)-hard work, I suppose.