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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat's happening with CNN is pathological.
I don't know how else to describe it.
Earlier they actually had a "Time until flight recorder beacon battery runs out" clock running in the background... counting down by the SECOND. Something like "17 Days 12 Hours 45:13"
And now the latest thing they've found to keep busy over the last few hours is the phrase "Zombie Plane". They threw out the phrase "some are calling it a 'zombie plane'" all dramatically, to introduce the term. And then minutes later they went right to "....what some are calling a zombie plane...." all nonchalant as though we've all been using that term already for days. Then some talking head on a panel says "I prefer to call it a ghost plane!" It's weird, it's like the typical degradation of coverage, but in fast forward.
Normally when you see this type of story where there is a lot of public interest but no new information, in order to milk the ratings bump the coverage starts to degrade into weird speculation just to keep it out front, and eventually it goes batshit if starved into madness from no actual news being forthcoming. Normally it takes a few days, this is happening in minutes. Whatever it is that causes this phenomenon, CNN is purifying, crystallizing and smoking it.
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Somewhere I read that they are even beating Fox News since the plane situation. I guess they are just hoping that the eyeballs will stay.
djean111
(14,255 posts)Yes, porn is correct.
elleng
(130,126 posts)PBS, and MSNBC.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)the begining.
I just dont get it.
JHB
(37,128 posts)...new and more solid information becomes available to keep it from metastasizing like this.
JVS
(61,935 posts)spanone
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mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)More in general, I can't help but think that people who watch "news" on TV are just a little off.
go west young man
(4,856 posts)Since the early 2000's America has been suffering from a new type of psychosis, due to the way they get their information...Faux and the right wing led the charge but CNN and all the right wing talk radio and such, have truly exacerbated the illness.
I cut my cable back in 2008 and went Netflix on a PS3 for TV shows and movies and only use the internet for my news. I feel much healthier mentally, have more family time, am less upset over issues, and have saved close to $5,000 on cable bills (used to pay $80 a month). And one of the best things of all...I am incredibly happy that my money is not going to support that drivel.
CNN, when Ted Turner started it was pretty good, but it has become pure shit in the last decade. Those people should be ashamed of how low they have fallen.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)I have one, and have turned it on a couple times to make sure it works. But anything I watch is online. No news. I get that here
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Chandra Levy days. That's because the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal had lost steam. I stopped watching them about that time. It's what they do to avoid real news coverage.
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)Response to GeorgeGist (Reply #11)
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louis-t
(23,199 posts)PCIntern
(25,342 posts)Deacon with the puppet that looked like him. You have to see it to believe how howlingly funny it was.
mike_c
(36,213 posts)Seriously. Waste of neurons.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)don't watch much TV anyway............
NBachers
(16,999 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)soon we will hear about the rapture. CNN was a ground breaking news channel, now look where it is at.
fujiyama
(15,185 posts)Doesn't even mean anything anymore. I think even a CNN anchor said it was problematic or disturbing.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)They lost any shred of credibility they had years ago.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Holly_Hobby
(3,033 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)to tell us what we've known - for two whole weeks! This was at 1:30pm CDT, today. Just now! BREAKING NEWS!!! China took pictures of debris!
Yea, thanks CNN. We've known about that for hours and hours. NOT BREAKING NEWS!!!
Simply ridiculous.
Mojo Electro
(362 posts)They frantically "broke" that story 2 days after it had been widely reported.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)and the person that can communicate with aliens to come on and give us an update. (Actually I'm not, I don't watch CNN because they have lost all credibility).
Good for laughs.
JHB
(37,128 posts)SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)" If there are survivors, where would they be"?
Aerows
(39,961 posts)or "they've gone absolutely bat shit crazy" are probably too kind to describe CNN's coverage of this missing plane.