WTF!!! CNN hires another conservative!!!

[Dawgs]

http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/stories/0117cnnbeck.html

This guy references NewsMax and The Christian Science Monitor for his political news.

http://www.glennbeck.com/page2/index.shtml

[AlCzervik]

1. WTF he's getting a whole show? I give up.

[FreedomAngel82]

3. Liberal media my ass

Everytime someone tells me "liberal media" I ask them to tell me one liberal who has his own tv talk show (and no Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert don't count).

[AX10]

4. I can't log in. Could you give me a snip of what the article says?

:argh:

[AlCzervik]

5. it said he's getting a "New prime time show"

[Dawgs]

19. Here ya go!!

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 01/17/06

CNN Headline News is continuing to bet its future success on opinionated chat shows, this time by hiring an up-and-coming conservative radio host for a new prime time program.

The upcoming addition of Glenn Beck, who is heard on about 200 radio stations, is the latest of several major changes at Headline News. In a move away from its heritage of showing a nonstop succession of half-hour news updates, the Atlanta-based network is focusing on shows meant to keep viewers watching longer.

...

[bpilgrim]

2. Glen Beck is an outright FASCIST - fuck the M$M

more...
http://GlobalFreePress.com

peace

[LuCifer]

6. "OH BUTT THE LIBRUL MEDUH, THE LIBRUL MEDUH, THE LIBRUL MEDUH..."

Oh my fucking god, it's like, FUCK YOOOOOU!!!!!!!!

[madinmaryland]

7. Haven't watched headline news in several years.

Only able to take CNN in small doses. Soon headline news won't be headline anymore, just another faux wanna be.

:thumbsdown:

[Marr]

8. Did you think they were going to give Katrina Vanden Heuval a show?

Big corporate media outlets are PR wings for their respective conglomerates. They aren't news, and they will *always* convey "the world according to GM", so long as they're allowed to do so.

[bpilgrim]

14. they haven't been this far out before - this guy is a BROWNSHIRT

talkshow host :puke:

peace

[Jackpine Radical]

30. I guess they're getting bolder, just like the WH.

[w8liftinglady]

9. another DU thread about Mr Wonderful

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x163153

[catmandu57]

10. Give cnn up

block them out on your tv it feels good. They aren't your friend, quit feeding their propaganda machine.

[Dawgs]

22. Who you talking to? I read this on the AJC web site.

Geesh!!!

[catmandu57]

41. I didn't see that

I didn't mean any offense, it's just that there are so many here who still watch that crap.

[Lerkfish]

11. totally off topic, but the CSM has a good reputation for being

relatively balanced.
They DO have the best online compendium on the neocons, for example.

[Captain Hilts]

33. CSM is a good paper. He's an idiot if reading it doesn't help him. nt

[Cooley Hurd]

39. Agreed - I'd trust the CSM over the NYT or WP any day...

[SoCalDem]

12. They don't want us to watch..

We need a sponsor list for CNN..perhaps a letter campaign to the sponsors, reminding them that 50% of the country (or more) does not even watch their commercials because we have tuned out the rightwing CNN :)

[stevedeshazer]

13. Previous related thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x163153

[wisteria]

15. Well, they are still trying to compete with Fox for viewers. Doesn't

look like we have anywhere to get news anymore without it bashing Dems and praising Bush and the Republicans. I will have to give it up- no more CNN.

[Catrina]

29. They could compete if they told the truth. Some of the blockbuster

stories that are going unreported, would blow Fox out of the water if CNN would report on them. They will NEVER beat Fox, which has the entire rightwing viewer base that's available and they are so indoctrinated they think CNN stands for Clinton News Network. It's hard to deprogram successful indoctrination. And it's not very big. CNN has lost millions of veiwers who would not watch Fox, and now have to go to the internet, or foreign news agencies to get away from the propaganda machine.

Let them sink. I never watch them anymore. A boycott of all their sponsors for this show is in order, imo. They may ignore it, but at least we won't be paying to be lied to.

[pointblank]

16. Holy shit

That guy is an off the charts fucking wacko.

I have been screaming about this fucktard for a while now and how evil he is whenever people bring up Limpballs, O'Reilly, Hannity, Coulter etc...and I have always held that, even though he is relatively unknown compared to the rest of the horde, he is as bad if not worse!! Watch out for this guy people!

I guess I really cant say I told you so, because it doesnt prove anything and no one really cares anyways, but I'll say it for my own self-gratification.... I TOLD YOU SO! :P



Beck has been on in St Louis for a while now and I used to stop at his show from time to time while dial surfing and I realized early on how much of an idiot this guy was when I heard him talking about how he became a mormon. According to this genius, are you ready for this, he was religion "SHOPPING" and found "Mormonism" to be the most practical and the best fit for his life.
Think about that one for a awhile. freedom of religion and all, but cmon, to CHOOSE to be a MORMON! after SHOPPING around for a religion. I dont know, it struck me as odd.

Oh yea, and this guy is a self-admitted ex-drug addict/alcoholic...so he is SUPER self-righeous and sociopathic.

[cindyw]

17. which station was it that hired that racist Michael something?

That was stopped immediately from outrage. The same thing should happen here.

[AX10]

20. MSGOP hired Adolph Mike Savage.

[pointblank]

21. That was MSNBC

Savage has absolutely no tact and no self control, which Glen Beck has little of wither, but Beck does possess more than Savage.

Basically, he isnt going to tell a caller that he wishes they would get AIDS and die. But he will be a bit more subtle about it, so not to get canned....IMO

[Individualist]

18. That surprises you?? nt

[sinkingfeeling]

23. Glenn Beck is as replusive as Rush, if not more so. This guy is an

ugly human being.

[Zen Democrat]

24. This guy will last about as long as Michael Savage did on MSNBC.

[LizW]

25. I'm not surprised.

CNN took a definite, sharp turn in the last year. I don't watch much, but when they started having Coulter on as a pundit and not as a joke, I knew they were done.

CNN is FOX News 2.0.

[Zen Democrat]

26. Glenn Beck originated the "Bitch In The Ditch" name for Cindy Sheehan.

He's a racist little puke and I can't believe he'll last anytime at all on TV. I've contacted the FCC about some of his radio comments that have been waaaay over the line.

[Nikki Stone1]

27. CNN went downhill when Time Warner bought it

It's trash TV now.

[TahitiNut]

28. They're ruining the CNN Headline News channel.

It has been the least opinionated news channel for years. While we all know that there's latitude in editing and producing "hard news," it is far, far less than the flood of partisan-biased 'talk' and newstainment seen on CNN, MSNBC, and Faux(pukevision). CNN Headlin News has been my preferred wake-up show while traveling for years. When I see it in airports, I've not minded - not like Faux(pukevision) which impels me to vacate the premises whenever it's on.

[EC]

31. I think they are asking for trouble with Glenn Beck

Maybe we'll luck out and he'll cause such a problem for them they'll be sued by someone he slanders....

[mcscajun]

32. Glenn Beck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????

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THUD! That was me hitting the floor.

This is surely another sign of the Apocalypse.

All emphasis in the following excerpt is mine:

Glenn Beck called hurricane survivors in New Orleans "scumbags," said he "hates" 9-11 families

Nationally syndicated Clear Channel radio host Glenn Beck referred to survivors of Hurricane Katrina who remained in New Orleans as "scumbags." Also, after acknowledging that nobody "in their right mind is going to say this out loud," Beck attacked victims of the disaster in general and the families of victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying: "I didn't think I could hate victims faster than the 9-11 victims."

(snip)

Beck's program is syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks (owned by radio conglomerate Clear Channel Communications) on more than 160 radio stations across the country to an estimated weekly audience of 3 million listeners.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200509090003

[billbuckhead]

34. Isn't this guy a reformed crackhead?

Beck will be in the running for worst person week after week.

[mcscajun]

35. I don't know if crack was his drug of choice, but he joined AA

some years back to kick his problems with drugs and alcohol.

He's now a self-described "Mormon with libertarian leanings" whatever THAT means.

[CabalPowered]

36. I just sent some feedback.. encouraging others to do the same

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4a.html?2

[Dawgs]

38. See Media Matters for heart warming quotes from this clown...

http://mediamatters.org/items/200601170001

"his is horrible to say, and I wonder if I'm alone in this -- you know, it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims' families?"

[CabalPowered]

40. Yea I saw those, he makes Savage look like a saint

:puke:

[LiviaOlivia]

37. Bennett now Beck

I'm glad I don't watch CNN.

[mcscajun]

42. My e-mail to CNN/Headline News

Glenn Beck is nothing more than a bigot with a microphone, and now CNN is going to give him face time on a national news network?

You've just joined Fox News down in the gutter of what used to pass for responsible journalism.

With any luck at all, Beck will say something so egregiously offensive that you'll have to cancel his contract within six weeks. Barring that, you can expect your ratings to plummet wildly.

This is the same man who mused publicly on the idea of killing Michael Moore, said he hated the 9/11 families, and called Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Bush's war on Iraq "the bitch in the ditch".

The decision to hire this hate-monger is a pathetic move by CNN management to pander to the lowest elements of our society, so CNN looks to become yet another bottom-feeder news network.

[ReverendDeuce]

43. What is wrong with the Christian Science Monitor?

They are not a fundie paper... In fact, they are very fair and very good. I've enjoyed many of their reports over the years. They are one of the better news sources.