This is sick. . .CNN has reporter on plane with runaway bride. . .

[wndycty]

. . .and they are expecting him to call in from the air. It should be said that Jennifer Wilbanks put her family through hell, by our anger should be directed at the press who totally sensationalized it. I wonder if there was not so much press overkill if the police would have put the resources that they have into the search.

[xray s]

1. and how many died in Iraq today?

Never mind. In fact, the word mind is becoming obsolete.

[wndycty]

2. There is a fricking one hour special on CNN about this shit. . .

. . .and the worst part is I cannot turn away.

[bpilgrim]

33. CANCEL CABLE

send a MSG they will understand $$$ and you will feel much better to boot =)

peace

[Imagevision]

83. CNN was real when Ted Turner owned it - now it's another Faux

[DollyM]

88. We actually did that!

I got so sick of the Terri Shiavo media circus, I cancelled our satellite service. We have been TV free since April 1st and I don't miss it a bit. It's amazing what a time and energy waster the TV is.

[SW FL Dem]

34. I turned it off to watch the Law and Order

repeat based of Rush Limbaugh's sexual harassment suit.

[Tigress DEM]

59. Oh?! A comedy joust then.

Just can't think of Rush and Sex in the same sentence without laughing my ass off. Who could tolerate such a pompus ass in bed?

[Eloriel]

67. Um, I get your point, but it's poorly made

when you equate sexual harassment with sex. Sexual harassment is about exercising power over, with very little to do with sex.

[Tigress DEM]

73. WoW! Snarky tonight aren't we?

I had no idea you took your TV shows so seriously.

Had the poster been talking about a real sexual harrassment event and not Law & Order - a TV Show (as in NOT REAL LIFE) - then I could see your point about my point being poorly made.

However, what I was doing was an attempt at humor, obviously it went right by you. Next time I will remember to label it with a disclaimer.

Here, does this meet your approval?

DISCLAIMER: The following is just a joke about a TV show and in no way construes the actual opinion of the poster should said situation involve real life persons. If it were an actual put down to people being sexually harrassed, you would have heard a supernova exploding near by.

That is also a joke. Humor has been known to be used on DU, so lighten up.

[MarianJack]

75. Who Can Tolerate Him in Bed?

Isn't a cnn reporter doing that now? I don't remember the name, but she must be the blind and stupid one (not that that narrows it down much).

[Clark2008]

84. Not Rush - he's the druggie

It was Bill O'Lielly.

Of course, what's the difference? :shrug:

[Tigress DEM]

91. Now THAT is funny.

"what's the difference?" :shrug:


All them neo-cons sound the same, just wrap a different meat package on it, give 'em a couple of million and women with a desire to be subjugated beat a path to their doors.

[hector459]

70. The wench should go to jail!

She has been living with her fiancee for over five years? Lies about being kidnapped, blames minority people for her false kidnapping and all they want to say is that she needs help and forgiveness? She can get help and she can be forgiven but she still needs to pay the penalty.

[susu369]

79. They've been living in SIN????

Haven't followed the so-called story but have caught the good Reverend preaching how much in love they are.

Guess she was planning to dress in white for the ceremony?

:rofl:

[warrior1]

3. I

yelled at my brother this morning when he started to talk about this.

[LaurenG]

4. What I want to know is why?

Why was this sensationalized? What other "news" did we get to miss because someone ran away from home. How often do people just get up and go yet there is no mention of the rest of them.:think:

[spooky3]

12. Because this story gets 4500 votes and the ones

of significance get, oh, 300 at most:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050430/ap_on_re_us/missing_bride

It's only a matter of time before Girls Gone Wild is on primetime.

[Tigress DEM]

61. Sigh, welcome to the DU.

You wouldn't know what you're missing if you didn't see it here or on the INDY news sites.

Sometimes it will piss you off, but we here totally understand you are asking us a valid question.

Now to ask "C"ee "N"o "N"ews what their problem is?

[Greylyn58]

89. The bigger question is

would this have even been sensationalized if this woman had been a minority instead of white?

Not...one...whisper would have made it to CNN, Fox, or MSNBC. There is no more real news, just tabloid news.

These stories are no more than TV versions of the National Enquirer or World News and if I wanted to know more I'd buy them at the supermarket check-out.

I expect real, hard news from these people. Unfortunately, what we now get is pablum. There are very few real news people left.

Sigh!!! :(

[Blue-Jay]

5. What happened to actual "news"?

I don't give a crap about a random bride's cold feet. So what?

[wndycty]

6. All 3 cable news networks are still going nuts over it. . .

. . .ugghhhhh.

[HockeyMom]

7. Absurd

With everything else going on in the world? It is almost like they don't want to report real news anymore.

[tblue37]

86. Bread and circuses--

only here in the US of A, the powers that be no longer even feel it necessary to provide the bread.

[Bunny]

25. Becauser she's white. And pretty. And rich.

Why do you hate America?

:crazy:

[Radio_Lady]

72. I thought you had to be white and pretty and rich -- and BLONDE!

[NYC Liberal]

8. How many people's wives DIED in Iraq over the past week or so?

HUH? Where the story on THAT? It's sick.

[Tigress DEM]

92. Yup. NOT Funny. Good Point.

In the vietnam era they sang,

"Where have all the flowers gone? Long time passing"
"Where have all the flowers gone? Long time ago."
"Where have all the flowers gone? Young girls pick them every one."
"When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?"

"Where have all the young girls gone...."
"Gone to soldiers every one.. when will they ever learn?"

"Where have all the soldiers gone?"

"Gone to graveyards everyone, when will they ever learn?"

Then with the advent of the war on reporters ... we should probably add a verse, but someone else will have to write it.... It's too hard to see through the tears these days when I think of how this administration is killing the Truth in every form.

I still can get over how NO ONE ever covered that female reporter in Iraq who was kidnapped with her 10 year old son. They killed her and let him go. Took him 2 days after she was murdered to get back home.


26 February 2005
Iraqi journalist found dead five days after she was kidnapped

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=1268
<clip>

Reporters Without Borders voiced "horror" today at the murder of Iraqi journalist Raeda Mohammed Wageh Wazzan of the regional public TV station Iraqiya, who was found dead on 25 February, five days after she and her son were kidnapped by masked gunmen in the centre of the northern city of Mosul.

"We are horrified by this vile murder, for which there is no justification, and we must stress yet again that journalists are neither belligerents nor bargaining chips," the press freedom organization said.

Reporters Without Borders added : "Our thoughts go out to Raeda Wazzan's family, especially her husband and son." Wazzan's 10-year-old son was released by her abductors after three days. It was her husband, Salim Saad-Allah, who announced on 26 February that the body of Wazzan, 40, had been found the previous day. She was shot in the head.

[Aviation Pro]

9. The one year anniversary....

...of Abu Gharib occured this past week and the press wants to pursue a bad imitation of Julia Roberts? Insane, totally insane.

[bigwillq]

10. F*CK Jennifer Wilbanks.

And FUCK CNN.

[XanaDUer]

13. Why fuck her?

She did not blow the entire thing out of proportion. In a way, she embarrassed CNN (they seem obsessed with this story the most, for some reason). I think now they are going to smear her for it.

She got cold feet.

[GiovanniC]

36. She Made it Look Like She'd Been Abducted

Wasted time, effort, energy of law enforcement that could have been doing better things.

Put her family and friends and fiance through hell.

[XanaDUer]

42. Yeah, what she did was dumb

but she must he under a lot of stress. We don't know her life or what is really going on.

They are now interviewing other people in the town and they are mad at her, etc. But, she probably had no idea our vulture-like press was going to pick up on this and post her personal life all over the place. She should have, but she didn't. Who knows what anyone would do if they are stressed out.

I agree with fuck CNN. They are actually running a poll for our Fellow Americans to call in about whether she should get in trouble or not, etc.

CNN is *still* running the story about this.

[XanaDUer]

11. Yes.

She upset her family and friends, but she did nothing illegal. The press was hoping to get in on another Laci Peterson story, and blew the entire thing up. Not her fault.

[H2O Man]

14. However, it creates problems for the president.

Should he invite her to the White House for a photo op? Or should he come out strongly against her for her attack on family values? This is a tough one.

[wndycty]

15. I say invite her to the White House and thank her for the distaction. . .

. . .maybe she can sit with Laura at next year's State of the Union.

[H2O Man]

21. It could happen.

The fearless leader has shown the ability to cure people with all types of illnesses. They could have her with crutches and bandages, sitting next to the First Lady, and His Righteousness The President could heal her, likely with just a word. VP Cheney might want to do a bit of the laying on of the hands, as a preventative strike. I think we're on to something.

[XanaDUer]

LOL!

I almost feel sorry for her. A wedding in front of 600 people?

And the Baptist Church Pastor blithering on and "couseling" them?

Ugh-I would have jumped on a slow boat to CHina, myself.

[Dervill Crow]

26. Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire!

If she was so nervous about her wedding, wonder how she feels about being a media sensation.

[XanaDUer]

23. LOL!

I almost feel sorry for her. A wedding in front of 600 people?

And the Baptist Church Pastor blithering on and "couseling" them?

Ugh-I would have jumped on a slow boat to CHina, myself.

[LevelB]

62. She lied to Federal Agents

That was enough to send Martha Stewart to the slammer.

It is irrelevant to the investigation that her lie was that she was abducted by Hispanics - but I think it says something about her.

B.

[Lindacooks]

76. Actually, falsely reporting a crime is a crime in all 50 states.

If she had just called her fiance and said she had cold feet, that would have been one thing. But she told the 911 operator that she had been kidnapped and gave details about the 'kidnappers' and their van. That's the crime.

[Clark2008]

85. Reporting a crime that didn't occur IS a crime

For a valid reason: it wastes taxpayer-funded poice resources.

However, I know nothing about this story other than she lied.

[Roland99]

16. CNN has fully become Entertainment Tonight

[Bluebear]

17. "She ordered a Coke...no make that a Diet Coke...."

:crazy:

[Roland99]

18. Are you serious?!?!?!?

:eyes:

[Bluebear]

19. No

Just imagining :)

[Roland99]

20. I was gonna say. Although, I shouldn't be surprised anymore.

[H2O Man]

22. There is nothing

more significant that that, however, that a reporter could tell the anxious nation.

[XanaDUer]

43. CNN is interviewing people on the plane with her.

Seriously. THis whole shit is getting sick.

[Roland99]

69. Wow....complete and utter shlock!!

[Danmel]

38. Well being from Atlanta, she knew better than to order Pepsi

Gotta know this shit

[Career Prole]

24. From the Yahoonews story I just read...

"But that being said, this is one of the most selfish and self-centered acts I've ever seen. We saw her parents, and you could see the anguish in their eyes. It was terrible," he said. "I don't care where you are — unless you're in the Amazon rain forest, you'd know everybody was out looking for you."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050430/ap_on_re_us/missing_bride;_ylt=A86.I2U8IXRC0aMAYwGs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

Amazon rain forest? I can tell this guy's never gone cross-country Greyhounding. The sun could go supernova and you wouldn't know it until you stagger off the bus three days later. :eyes:

[Selteri]

27. Who the hell cares about a woman with cold feet

give us real news or get out of the business, they aren't worth my time anymore with this yellow journalism.

I'll just watch the Daily show where at least I know when they're lieing to me... usually.

[Unions]

28. Did you watch it a day or so ago?

He said "The sad thing is I don't make this stuff up anymore".

He actually reports more signifigant news in 30 mins than the media can do in 24 hours.

[Selteri]

90. True and true.

When I heard about her being 'missing' in the first place I thought, "Ye gods, we have more important news to cover, what are they trying to distract us from now?"

And I am thankful for the Daily Show. On Saturday I spotted him being interviewed on CNN International (The only CNN I watch anymore) where he ripped open on the brit interviewing him stating that he's failed at his job along with the rest of them. It was most gratifying to watch that.

[wndycty]

29. LOL now CNN is running a "best of" runaway bride retrospective. . .

. . .showing all of the clips from the week. The need to play some emotional music like "I will remember you" or something. . .LOL

[Stinky The Clown]

30. NOBODY better say Jerry Springer did bad teevee

At least he admitted he was the host of bad teevee. These fuckwads are stil dressing up as newsmen.

And where's Iron Leslie Blitzer? Shouldn't he be in the swivel chair pulling all the strings. I mean ... after all ... this BIG news.

What fucking ASSHOLES!!!!!!!!

[Gman]

31. It's been a really slow news day

Hence the focus on her.

[tblue37]

87. Except that

it is not a slow news day, or week, or month, or year. News, big news, is being made here in the US and all over the world, but not the sort of news Americans seem to want to hear about, since it involves paying attention and using a few brain cells.

[XanaDUer]

32. AAAARGGGHHHHH!

CNN: the wedding is back on.

[CornField]

35. LMAO!! Wait.... you're not joking?

:puke:

[GiovanniC]

37. Pretty Girl + Wedding Drama + Mysterious Disappearance =

MAY SWEEPS RATINGS!

[Hosnon]

45. HEHE--first to reply to the 15 m post

And I think "white" should be in that equation...

[sellitman]

65. 1st to reply to the first replier

I couldn't resist! :rofl:

[UrbScotty]

81. First reply to the first reply to the first replier

:bounce:

[Skinner]

49. GiovanniC posts the 15 millionth post!

Go take a bow!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=3158415&mesg_id=3158415

[intheflow]

52. Congratulations, GiovanniC!

This is a good and representative post on DU. Strong $15M! :thumbsup:

[SW FL Dem]

53. Congrats GiovanniC n/t

[cestpaspossible]

57. grats

[CoolOnion]

60. Congratulations!!!

[brainshrub]

68. Congrats to the 15th million post.

[wryter2000]

80. I am soooooo jealous

Congrats, GiovanniC. :toast:

[Blue Diadem]

39. The news stations are milking it for all it's worth

and it's ridiculous. The woman has to be embarassed out of her tree and obviously not too stable to have done that to her family and fiance.

[FrankieBud]

40. Jennifer Wilbanks just said

how sorry she is for putting her family through all the pain her disappearance caused them and for the rest of us f**ks to mind our own business and to get a life.

[Ms. Clio]

46. Did she apologize to the Mexican American community?

For accusing a "Hispanic" male of abducting her?

A hundred years ago, that's all that would be needed for the posse, bloodhounds, and rope.

[XanaDUer]

48. Whoa!

She did that? Well, then my sympathy for her is waning.

[Ms. Clio]

51. That's what has been reported

"In answer to the dispatcher's questions, Wilbanks gave detailed descriptions of her kidnappers, whom she described as a Hispanic man and a white woman. She said they were driving a blue van, whose license plate number she didn't get. She also told the dispatcher, before dissolving into sobs, that her abductors were armed with a small handgun."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=3153463&mesg_id=3157379

[Blue Diadem]

54. OMG I didn't know that. That's awful!

Do you know how far she took that before she fessed up? I wonder if they can bring charges against her for making a false statement like that to police.

[Ms. Clio]

58. Here's a link that seems to answer that question

There were just a lot of holes in her story," Schultz, the Albuquerque police chief, told CNN. "The story kept getting retold and retold -- it was a little bit different each time ... If she'd been with somebody for four days, she would have had a little more information."

Eventually, "they asked her, 'Do we need to look for the blue van anymore?' and she said, 'No' ... It took several hours, but she did the right thing by telling the truth," said Ahrensfield, Albuquerque's police spokeswoman."

http://www2.cnn.com/2005/US/04/30/wilbanks.found/

She also claimed that these imaginary kidnappers, the Hispanic and his white girlfriend (nice double play on the racist theme) cut her hair before they released her.

[Blue Diadem]

63. Thanks for the link,

I've been in and out all day today and missed it all.

It's pretty bad that a 32 yr old would make up something so potentially damaging instead of just telling the truth. Looks like the Albuquerque police did a good job.

[Codeblue]

41. I've always wondered

how some stories become more important to the media than others.

Like Laci Peterson. How many husbands kill their wives every year and we never hear a snippet about them. Then all of a sudden this rich fuckwad from California becomes infamous overnight for doing the same thing hundreds of people do every year.

Then this bride runs away from home and becomes notorious immediately. How many husbands get cold feet the day before the wedding, run out to get some smokes and nobody ever sees them again?

[XanaDUer]

44. There is some definite sexism here going on

and lots of women are killed by their loved ones in the USA.

[Codeblue]

50. Wait

Are you accusing me of being sexist? That wasn't my intention at all and I'm sorry if you interpreted it that way.

[XanaDUer]

64. No, I was agreeing with you.

...

[XanaDUer]

47. Agreed, and they are interviewing people who were on

the airplane. It is sick. The anger should be directed at the news outlets, though.

I tried calling CNN to vent, but the lines are busy.

[CoolOnion]

55. Next come the morning talk show appearances...

...followed by a book deal and a movie of the week...

[Mist]

56. Congratulations, Giovanni C! Which T-shirt will you choose

as your prize?

About the runaway bride (about which I know absolutely nothing), well, everything is just so wonderful in W's America, that's the most important story right now!

[Eloriel]

66. Even sicker -- they actually broke in on Larry King with "breaking"

news that a flight attendant had reported to the CNN reporter that she had spoken to her fiance and apparently the wedding is only postponed, not off.

I wondered if I was back in high school or something. It was so bizarre and unprofessional and ... just sick.

[Jack Rabbit]

71. !!

Image from Kill Your Television

[NightOwwl]

74. Remember when CNN was a real news show?

Yeah...neither do I.

[MadHound]

77. And the program of diversion and distraction continues to be successful

Turn your TV news off, it is an oxymoronic term. Who cares if some bride isn't going to get married, it is her business.

Meanwhile more people on both sides are dying in Iraq, and we are still faced with the evil of Bushco at home.

Eyes on the ball people, don't be fooled by this BS.

[BornLeft]

78. One idiot kept referring to

Wilbanks as a "victim". What about the terrified Hispanics in GA waiting on der Sturmtroopers to come after them? And the reverend that is speaking for the family what a nut job.

[slackmaster]

82. I'm SOOOO glad I left the TV off yesterday

:D

[deacon]

93. they are a laughingstock, cnn has hit rock bottom-there is plenty of

reality tv on our airwaves, unfortunetly not in our tv news. Hang it up cnn.