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rpannier

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7. I mean... but it's the tone... the tone!
Sun Mar 6, 2016, 09:15 AM
Mar 2016

Far more important than what she said because... the tone

They pay these fools so much damned money it's like they have to find a teason to put their faces on screen

The most egregious example (IMO) came from 2008 on CNN. I was in east Asia, woke up, getting dressed and listening to then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology in parliament for the pain and devastation inflicted upon Aboriginal people in Australia.
They break away from his speech on CNN-International, place PM Rudd speaking in a small box and we are 'treated' to CNN chatter yakkers telling us what the PM is saying at that moment.

Wouldn't it have made more sense to just let us listen to what PM Rudd is saying? Not when you pay the 'Meet the Stupids Stupider Relations' a few million plus per year

In Mediocrity the only thing that matters is getting the mugs of those dimwits on the screen to attempt to justify those inflated salaries.
Hell, Brian Williams was making like 20+ mil a year. Doing a really lousy job at something I could have done better (and would have done) for less

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