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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo CNN does a split screen of Obama and crack smoking mayor Rob Ford
I was at the gym working out on Saturday and I look up at the TV to see this shit...I'm thinking to myself,
So in addition to the ACA website glitches being compared to Katrina and the Iraq war, Obama has now been likened to a crack smoking mayor by CNN, the self-proclaimed "most trusted name in news".
They aren't even trying anymore.
This is what our "news" media has become.
delrem
(9,688 posts)riversedge
(70,242 posts)RosettaStoned77
(53 posts)I mean, come on. Just look at these two guys and tell me who YOU think is the crackhead. (The BLACK one) Of course...
In_The_Wind
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LuvNewcastle
(16,846 posts)the only news I watch there is MSNBC. The big screens are always on ESPN or the Weather Channel. We each have our own tvs on the machines, so I can control what I watch on the elliptical. Those individual tvs are what really sold me on that gym, since I don't have to worry about being forced to watch Fox or some other odious trash.
RosettaStoned77
(53 posts)I always ask them to chang it to The Price Is Right! Equally mindless, but not nearly as infuriating.
LuvNewcastle
(16,846 posts)My grandmother kept me during the day when I was a boy and we used to watch that show together. She an I were close, so the show gives me a warm feeling inside. Drew Carey's doing a good job, too. No one should object to watching Price Is Right; that's about as non-controversial as it gets.
Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)They're intentionally trying to validate RW talking points.
The notion that any news organization needs to be extreme RW shills to be successful is beyond silly. Obama just won re-election by a landslide. So if anything, they simply want to push wingnut memes. That's why CBS got caught out there with its BS story.
Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)RW books come out, in short order end up on the $1 shelf prior to being recycled into toilet paper. RW talking points have no validity outside the echo chamber. They go nowhere, the whole RW thing is dependent on the willingness of the Koch Brothers and others of their ilk, to allow this drain on their wealth. To them it may be an investment because conservatives, like communists of yore, are relaxed when it comes to poisoning the environment, but it's still a short-term return.
The destruction of America used to serve the interest of the Soviets, but now has become an inside job.
Morphia
(49 posts)Crack smoking Mayors do keep things interesting!
DFW
(54,405 posts)Their claim to be a news network will soon be akin to that of Fox Noise: sports stats are probably accurate, and the weather, too, as long as no mention is made of global warming. Other than that, if they are to conform with existing "Truth in Advertising" laws, they will soon have to rebrand themselves "Conservative News Network."
Atman
(31,464 posts)Piers Morgan Ann Romney interview airing soon...the only clip is Ann saying something to the effect that Obama is done, completely cooked, his presidency is over. Nice, CNN...let's see what the loser's wife thinks about the man who kicked her husband's ask. Hmmm...I wonder what she'd say?
spanone
(135,844 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)like a pack of rabid dogs.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)That's Entertainment!
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)and into personal anger from the higher ups, where hyperbolic editorializing is presented as analysis or news reporting without a blink of the eye.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)to compare the health care rollout with Katrina. Well not sure he did exactly that, had to turn off the sound. Amazing how Crowley lasted since she didn't give Mitt preferential treatment at the debates.
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)made no sense, so they grasped at an even more ridiculous comparison (where that talking point was distributed among all of the outlets).
Hopefully this will be their "last stand" until they are annihilated (to use the Little Bighorn analogy on them).
tabasco
(22,974 posts)and convince a friend to turn that shit off.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)They actually report news on that channel.
Igel
(35,320 posts)Inquiring minds ...
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/17/cnn-split-screen-segment-compares-obama-and-crack-smoking-toronto-mayor/
With link to the video itself.
Of course, Rawstory has outrage as a weekly special, so most of the comments show no awareness of anything else other than the screenshot at the beginning of the article. Thinking with all the penetration of an atomic force microscope (hey, it's atomic, it's force, it must be penetrating).
It's a conversation I'd have described as "meta" a few years ago, before netizens redefined it as self-referential. It's abstracted: It's not about Obama or Ford's problems or really about the two men per se (nor about itself), but is at at least one remove from the men and their problems. They compare and contrast the respective responses and evaluate the merits and shortfalls of each response. Hard to squeeze that into a 2-second blipvert. (3 second blipvert? Please. That would try the patience of a saint these days.)
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)I think a poster mentioned up thread that the point is subliminal. When you create a split screen like that, it's just the image that makes the impact.
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)They were making the comparison that both would like to focus on the work of the people, not really comparing the two.
Cha
(297,314 posts)Who them?!
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Yep yep.
Cha
(297,314 posts)I like how SNL handled the mayor of Toronto.. led right into a 60 Minutes episode with a "Lara Logan".. Nailed!
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/snl-lampoons-mayor-rob-ford-and-60-minutes-during-cold-open/
Catwoman http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024045720
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)Blue Owl
(50,424 posts)n/t
Lifelong Dem
(344 posts)Obama taking the heat for the insurance companies cancellations.