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| CNN to Package News by Topical Themes |
| 2003-07-20 |
| (2003-07-17) -- As the major news organizations go into their annual summer re-run cycle, CNN announced today it will package its programming in topical categories as "headline theme shows". Among the categories scheduled for rebroadcast: -- Arab TV airs more tapes from guys we thought we had killed. -- Democrats shocked and saddened at things George Bush does. -- If you lived here, this weather would probably kill you. -- Someone you never heard of is missing...possibly killed. -- The economy, while apparently rebounding, will likely get worse. -- Diseases with acronyms or animal names will probably kill you. -- Someone is killing people in a town you never heard of. -- Something you use everyday will probably kill you. -- Everybody in the world still hates America. -- Someone you never heard of just won the lottery. -- Someone famous said something outrageous. -- Stories we broke keep making news on our network. -- Disturbing video you need to see again and again. Not. But it’s hard to be sure with CNN. |
| Posted by:PD |
| #9 Found the DVD on Walmart's site for $21.37. |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-7-21 8:18:55 AM |
| #8 Anonymous? Recognize irony? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-7-20 10:19:24 PM |
| #7 politicsandprotest.org |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-7-20 7:47:53 PM |
| #6 I don't disagree with either of you, Brian and Dar, but how many people have those tapes/DVD's (by the way - if you find the DVD cheap, I'd like to know where so I can do the same). My beef is with those who've decided we all have seen it enough. If it's rebroadcast on 9/11/03, 9/11/04, I'll freely admit I was (like on many other issues...D'oh!) wrong. I don't think it'll be broadcast this year (because we "need to move on") and next (because it'll "influence the election too much" - for a side the media doesn't want winning) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-7-20 1:23:45 PM |
| #5 I'm with Brian. I still pull out the CBS "9/11" special every couple months and watch the firefighters milling in the lobby, trudging up the stairs, wincing at the crashes of bodies hitting the sidewalk, running from the collapsing towers, choking on the dust, regrouping at the station house, and picking up the pieces, and that reminds me why we're in Afghanistan and Iraq. In fact, I gotta find this on DVD, 'cause the VHS tape is getting old, worn, and crappy. |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-7-20 12:14:23 PM |
| #4 Week and a couple days in the Sierras/Tahoe to recharge the batteries. Brian, I understand our point yet for the networks to decide we've seen enough, so we don't go nukular (heh heh) is elitism at its worst. If every time the media ran a story on some disgruntled 3ID guy bitching and moaning, or on the Niger uranium "scandal", or on a another poor GI getting shot guarding a bank or City Hall in Iraq or Kabul, they also showed a inset screen shot of the towers falling, this countries' resolve would not be in question. IMHO, Rantburgers have longer memories, attenton spans, and more knowledge of the world situations than most Americans, and in particular, than most reporters |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-7-20 11:48:56 AM |
| #3 Welcome back, Frank, but I disagree. Hell, I still have the video on my computer. When people say they'll never forget, they mean it. This isn't spin control by the Bush Administration, this is an effort to prevent the American people from duplicating what happened after the Edict of Nantes was overturned... |
| Posted by: Brian 2003-7-20 11:40:38 AM |
| #2 WTF you been? It's great to have you back - puhleeze, wade in and wreak some havoc! |
| Posted by: PD 2003-7-20 11:03:08 AM |
| #1 speaking of disturbing video we haven't seen much of lately - anybody seen video of two jets slamming into two towers lately? Americans bloody running through the streets or jumping from the 102nd floor while holding hands? What do you think the odds are these video clips ("too inflammatory and disturbing! we can't show that again!") will be shown again extensively - unless if Bush's administration can be blamed for the lapses - prior to the next election? Between nil and none? I'm back |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-7-20 10:40:17 AM |