BREAKING: George Zimmerman has been taken into custody after an altercation involving a gun.

[liberalhistorian]

93. Especially since they hired O'Mara

as their new "legal analyst" and shilled shamelessly for Zimmerman all throughout the whole controversy and the trial. And that's not even getting into the fact that they often gave false/incorrect reports with erroneous facts before they even had all of the facts and before they ever did any in-depth verifying. I refuse to watch anything with O'Mara in it. Intellectually, as a former paralegal and as the wife of an attorney, I know that he was doing his job and did it well and that everyone deserves that kind of defense when on trial. Emotionally, however, it's a whole other story and he disgusts me to no end, especially his treatment of Trayvon's family and friends and his shameless racial fear-mongering. So I don't trust any "news" entity that hires him as an analyst.

Come to think of it, they do that a lot nowadays with a lot of other news, also. I wouldn't believe anything they reported on this newest incident anymore than I would believe Fox. And I used to be a huge fan of CNN while Turner still had control of it, before he sold out to Big Commercial Time Warner and it began its downward spiral.

I still remember when CNN finally and completely jumped the shark for me. It was in the spring of 2005, during the whole hyped-up "runaway bride" bullshit. There was a white woman who'd gone "missing" the week before her wedding, which, of course, made for a great "story" for the networks. As the week went on, the evidence began to make it more and more obvious that she hadn't been kidnapped or suffered any other such "foul play", but had actually taken off in order to avoid her wedding. She'd cut and dyed her hair, changed other aspects of her looks, taken out money and then boarded a bus and ridden several hundred miles away. She finally called her family and fiance and "confessed" the night before the wedding, a Friday night. That Saturday, Iraq erupted in flames as there were several coordinated attacks on Americans and American military outposts, as well as many civilians, all throughout the day.

But you certainly wouldn't have known that from watching CNN, however. Oh, no, they had far more important things to cover. Like spending all day showing the family home where the wedding and reception was supposed to take place and what was happening (never mind that it was known by then what had happened with her and she was on her way home) and then sending a reporter to accompany Jennifer Runaway Bride (can't remember the bitch's last name anymore) on her plane ride home and covering the "reunion" with family and fiance. It had NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING on Iraq whatsoever, NOTHING. Or any other news, for that matter. It was all the "runaway bride" horseshit that had nothing to do with anything and was of no importance whatsoever. THAT was when I'd finally had enough of them, and they've proved themselves worthless ever since. Certainly their fact-checking leaves much to be desired.

And the tool Wolf Blitzer puts the icing on the cake. I remember during Katrina, when he was interviewing some Army Corps of Engineering people about the breakdown of the levees and they were discussing how maintenance had been underfunded for the past few years. He flat out asked "so, who's to blame for this, then, Clinton"? No kidding. Couldn't have been more obvious.