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PDittie's JournalCNN founder Ted Turner: Network 'sticking with politics a little too much'
(pstokely's LBN thread locked as I was composing reply below)
Source: The Hill
CNN founder Ted Turner says his former network now focuses "too much" on politics, and that he wishes the company would strive for more "balanced" programming between politics and other news.
In an interview with "CBS Sunday Morning," Turner told veteran anchor Ted Koppel that he rarely follows the news, and only watches his former news channel occasionally.
“I think they’re sticking with politics a little too much,” he told Koppel. "They'd do better to have a more balanced agenda."
"But that's, you know, just one person's opinion," he added.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/409050-cnn-founder-ted-turner-network-sticking-with-politics-a-little-too-much
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They used to have a more "local-style" broadcast: news (that wasn't the latest political development, or police car chase, or shooting) at the top, followed by weather, a short sports take and some entertainment or human interest news at the end of a thirty-minute period.
What I'm describing is now Headline News (or used to be, anyway. Even that seems to be more like Entertainment Tonight now). At ten pm (Central) they would do a sports wrap that was better than ESPN's SportsCenter -- Fred Hickman and Nick Charles.
That was Ted Turner's time, mid to late '80's. Fewer cable channels and more generalized coverage. There's been so much segmentation/fragmentation that the kind of news broadcast he remembers (or given his Lewy body dementia, prefers) simply cannot compete today.
Watch CNN World or the BBC and you'll get a slight glimpse of what it was like back then: more serious, global, less sensational, not 'tabloid'-y. Especially international war coverage, with reporters like Peter Arnett. That's what we lack the most in our US media today.
Buy a postcard or a greeting card
about once a week (or a month if it's not cost-prohibitive) and write him a little note.
Something along the lines of "fuck you asshole", no return address. If you're paranoid about these things, mail it from a different PO each time and wear latex gloves or something so they can't find any prints, construe it into a threat against him.
Email, phone calls, faxes are ignored. Old technology is now best.
It does make the next nominee
a bit more difficult to oppose. But only if they pull Kavanaugh quickly, get the next man up and queried, and rushed through in similar fashion before the midterms.
Which shouldn't be happening the first time with Kavanaugh.
Bill Maher got the Kavanaugh letter wrong
Bill Maher dismisses Kavanaugh sexual misconduct allegation: ‘I think it makes us look bad’“Now they’re coming at him with this accusation from someone anonymous who said that he was at a party … but sexual assault in high school from an anonymous source, I think it makes us look bad,” he said on Friday's “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
Lot of people -- most of them Republicans -- need to change their tune in the wake of today's breaking news.
He was in a dark place
in the months before his death.
In chronological order:
https://pagesix.com/2018/06/09/anthony-bourdain-was-regularly-suicidal-after-end-of-first-marriage/
https://pagesix.com/2018/06/09/the-troubling-signs-leading-up-to-anthony-bourdains-suicide/
https://pagesix.com/2018/06/11/rose-mcgowan-anthony-bourdain-sought-help-before-suicide/
And this:
https://pagesix.com/2018/06/25/anthony-bourdain-participated-in-death-ritual-months-before-suicide/
In one scene, a man explains the country’s religion, Bhutanese Buddhism, as something meant to remind people “time and again, not to take things too seriously. This is, in fact, an illusion.”
Bourdain responds: “Life is but a dream.
“It is considered enlightening and therapeutic to think about death for a few minutes a day,” he narrates over a shot of breathtaking mountain ranges.
In an article for CNN, “Black Swan” director Aronofsky reflected on the meaningful nature of his travels with the late chef.
“It seems ironic now that on our last day of shooting we performed a Bhutanese death ritual,” Aronofsky wrote. “We debated the fate of the country, the fate of the world. He was perplexed as to how mankind’s endless hunger to consume could be curtailed.”
That last sentence.
Maybe
Do you think calling them stupid is going to get them to grow up and vote Democratic?
Third thread and most rec'ced on this topic
and I still don't see any value in attacking people who do not vote for their reasons for doing so.
There is no key to victory, no secret to improving voter turnout, no insights revealed as to what might be improved on the part of candidates, campaigns, strategy, communications, etc. in these remarks that I can discern.
Just insults and scolds.
Maybe nobody should read this article, either, if it's just going to raise your blood pressure.
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/10/645223716/on-the-sidelines-of-democracy-exploring-why-so-many-americans-dont-vote
There is no amount of
scolding non-voters that is going to turn them into voters.
This is an epic fail in logic, folks.
Sorry to have to point this out. Don't stone the messenger.
I just don't think
non-voters are obligated to abide by your (or someone else's) rationalizations for voting.
Wonderfully inspirational words to non-voters
Something else you probably shouldn't read if it's going to trigger your snowflakes:
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/10/645223716/on-the-sidelines-of-democracy-exploring-why-so-many-americans-dont-vote
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