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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs CNN as bad as everyone thinks it is? Yes ... and no. - Hank Stuver, Washington Post TV Critic
Is CNN as bad as everyone seems to think it is? Often, yes. The networks live coverage of Mondays destructive acts in Baltimore, and its seeming appetite for more trouble on Tuesday, in many ways demonstrated the strengths and shortcomings that are involved when a cable news channel tries to chase a live (and incendiary) story while haphazardly feeling around for a central statement or a bigger picture.
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Marquez cut an interesting figure at the epicenter of Baltimores meltdown: Dressed like a hipster Clark Kent (sans necktie), he for some technical reason required the constant use of his smartphone, which he held to his ear while interviewing eyewitnesses and answering questions from CNN anchors.
This had a way of making Marquez look like both a lunatic and a true man of the moment; he wasnt always on point (I didnt know what a tough and diverse city this is, he remarked), but his relentlessness exemplified the swashbuckling flavor of a CNN hallmark that goes at least as far back as the Scud Stud days: the reporter who is in the thick of things. In between reporting what he was seeing, Marquez was peppered with unnecessary attaboys from the anchors back in the studio, who expressed fear for his safety. Oh, the humanity.
This had a way of making Marquez look like both a lunatic and a true man of the moment; he wasnt always on point (I didnt know what a tough and diverse city this is, he remarked), but his relentlessness exemplified the swashbuckling flavor of a CNN hallmark that goes at least as far back as the Scud Stud days: the reporter who is in the thick of things. In between reporting what he was seeing, Marquez was peppered with unnecessary attaboys from the anchors back in the studio, who expressed fear for his safety. Oh, the humanity.
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But viewers from President Obama down to the rest of us also recognize the corrosive effects of repeat footage of looting and fires. When CNN fixates on a burning car as its primary visual for 45 minutes, or when it appears to treat the loss of one CVS drugstore as a bigger tragedy than the death of a person in police custody, viewers pick up on that. If you were watching CNN anytime between Monday and Tuesday afternoon, you would sometimes think you were watching a noisy funeral for a drugstore, one of 7,600 drugstores in a very profitable chain that can very well avail itself of some positive, valuable PR by rebuilding.
Whole article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/is-cnn-as-bad-as-everyone-thinks-it-is-yes--and-no/2015/04/28/31ffac20-ede2-11e4-8666-a1d756d0218e_story.html
I vote yes. CNN is Crappy News.
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Is CNN as bad as everyone thinks it is? Yes ... and no. - Hank Stuver, Washington Post TV Critic (Original Post)
FSogol
Apr 2015
OP
If the WP article author had noticed how the rest of CNN sucks as much as recent coverage, there
Fred Sanders
Apr 2015
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blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)1. Yep.
which is why I haven't watched that station in years.
sendero
(28,552 posts)3. The MSM..
... and I mean ALL of the MSM has several agendas. To inform is not one of them.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)4. If the WP article author had noticed how the rest of CNN sucks as much as recent coverage, there
would be no need to have any doubt what CNN has become...another plaything of the super-wealthy to suppress dissent and to stoke fear.
The mainstream media is so bad that it has become cliched to talk about how bad they are. THAT'S HOW BAD THEY ARE.
@harikondabolu