CNN
Someone at CNN needs to get fired. Make that someone(s). What the heck is going on there? First of all, they keep running these humorous ESPN-esque ads starring Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer and all their other news reporters/anchors. So unnecessary. And weird. And whoever is in charge of writing those captions (not the running ones on the bottom) that describe the stories is really annoying me. "Kerik Kerfluffle"?????? "Extreme Makeover" (a story about Viktor Yushchenko)????? The other day, they did a whole story about a man whose boat had drifted away and he was stuck in the ocean for 18 hours before he was rescued. Good story, right? And at the END of the story, they told us the man was 80 years old. Wow. Maybe that would have been something they should have mentioned at the BEGINNING of the story. Today, they did a story about an elephant fashion show. Yeah...an elephant fashion show. Something about a spread for a magazine. Anyway, after the story, one news anchor told this joke:
Q: "What did the female elephant model say to the male elephant model?"
A: "Does this chiffon make me look fat?"
SO WRONG. On so many levels.
Q: "What did the female elephant model say to the male elephant model?"
A: "Does this chiffon make me look fat?"
SO WRONG. On so many levels.
posted by S at 1:00 PM
2 Comments:
Oh my! I don't have cable so I rarely see CNN. When I visit home, my folks will have Fox on (of course). I know what's wrong with them, but I hadn't realized how lazy CNN had gotten (or maybe they were always that bad?). That's the thing that kills me about the news, especially those electronic voids of darkness called "local news" shows. There are thousands upon thousands of fascinating stories out there, waiting to be investigated and we get mindless banter and "cutesy" headlines. "Extreme Makeover?!" What the hell?
I think it's almost like they want to be the Daily Show. Like whoever runs CNN wants to run a comedy network...which is so sad...b/c they don't get that the Daily Show is actually making fun of them.
It's been really really bad. For a week, Darin Kagin (sp?) one of the morning news anchors was sitting on a super high stool so that her legs were pretty much propped up on the table. I think that was some sad attempt to get male viewers. And they hired some idiot anchor named Rick something who, swear to god, referred to a political figure, as "that guy..." while asking the news correspondent questions. THAT GUY???? Those words should never come out of a news reporter's mouth.
And that 80 year old man - it wasn't even part of the story. The anchor was just doing inane anchor blather and said something like "Wow, and he's 80!"
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