Did you just hear CNN's new slogan?

[Syrinx]

"No fear, just the facts."

Did I get that right? I was blown away.

[d_b]

1. No fear, just the facts?

Wtf?

how about "Cnn: Not as bad as Fox"

[ClintonTyree]

18. CNN: "Trying to be as bad as FOX"........

is more like it.

[joanski0]

2. How about, "No fear, just the lies"

That would be more truthful.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. "Give us a sense" "Give us a sense" "Give us a sense"

"Give us a sense" "Give us a sense" "Give us a sense" "Give us a sense"...... always give us a sense.... tired old phrase that just doesn't make sense anymore...

[Syrinx]

4. I quoted what I was talking about

Sorry if I misunderstand.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

27. Not at all, has nothing to do with you Syrinx.... it's what all the news

talking heads are addicted to saying as of late.... it's just a pet peeve of mine.... sorry if I seemed to be slamming you... 4Mor :) :hug:

[Syrinx]

29. I'm sorry, just didn't understand

:hi: Peace, friend.

[Warpy]

5. Should be "Contains No News"

since they've morphed into something to the right of Pox but heavier on the tabloid garbage.

Of course they did get Whittington's name right. Some dimwit brunette on Pox kept calling him WhitFIELD.

[madeline_con]

19. Like When Donny was Rumfield. LOL! n/t

[Cooley Hurd]

6. Was it followed by the CNN Security Watch banner?

*cue ominous, scary music. roll Blitzer*

[Syrinx]

8. yeah, kinda, but no Les.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

7. Whose fear are they acknowledging?

Their own as a weinie, pussy, cowed media? Or are they saying that they will follow the truth regardless of where it leads? How refreshing would that be?

I sense the media tide turning, even if just a bit. They make themselves look so foolish when half their audience is better informed than they are just because of following the blogs, which come to think of it, have kind of led the way in fearless reportage and opinion.

[Syrinx]

11. I admit I got overly excited

When I heard "no fear" I thought of true fearlessness, and thought of a true non-Fox news station, strong and proud. That might come to the rescue.

I just got too excited.

[madeline_con]

20. Speaking of blogs....

Are they beig paid by the few they mention?

It seems to me they talk about a select few all the time. :shrug:

[thefloyd]

9. Well if CNN follows the lead of Cafferty

CNN will be back in my cable line up team. Until then CNN is and will stay on the bench

[fearnobush]

10. "No fear, just attacks" to your personal freedom. CNN were watching you!

Paid for by the Bush thought police

[Jeanette in FL]

12. "Tell me Lies" Fleetwood Mac bumper music

coming back into the show. I was hoping that they would go into Cheney with that song, but that perky little Carol Costello was blathering on about something else.

[liberal N proud]

13. Does that mean the they are changing from All Fear, All the time?

It would require a change in reporting if they are going to stop peddling fear and start giving facts.

[godai]

14. Orwellian translation: 24/7 fear and rove's 'facts'

Let's see what they say about the woman in the photo baring her breasts. I heard on CBS radio that she was a prostitute. That makes it OK?? I guess we're supposed to believe she did this voluntarily despite the religious rules against this.

[file83]

15. LOL! Exactly. n/t

[WePurrsevere]

17. Huh? What woman? Apparently I missed something interesting...

do you have a link please?

TIA B-)

[godai]

23. link

I saw a photo of a woman with exposed breasts (blacked out) on TV news yesterday and heard the 'prostitute' report this morning on CBS radio news. Interestingly, I haven't been able to locate the photo online. Many of the response stories online talk about: this is old news, all it does is inflame passions...Obviously, rovian spin.



http://news.ft.com/cms/s/96402ce6-9e91-11da-b641-0000779e2340.html

"Other images included photos of women's breasts, prisoners with severe wounds or covered in faeces, as well as degrading pictures of several corpses."

[WePurrsevere]

25. Thank you. I knew about the new pics but only managed to get through

the first few on Kos before I had to take a break. It's not the blood or feces that makes me ill, as a nurse and a mother I've seen plenty of that. It's the horrendous inhumane treatment of other living beings that is so abhorant to me that I need to turn away even as I crave to see ALL of those, right up the chain of command, held resposible and tried and punished for their crimes.

[teryang]

16. The so called main stream collapses into jingoism

"No fear" is an anti-rationalist meme, fascist in nature,

Similar to the Nike slogan, "just do it."

It is anti-analysis, anti-reflection, anti-consideration of the implications and consequences, anti-thought. The implication is rejection of the notion that a reasonable man considers the consequences of his actions. How can thoughtlessness result in consideration of the facts?

"Just do it," is a will to power meme easily recognizable as a fascist underpinning in the mass mind. It may be appropriate for the sports minded but it is a blueprint for disaster in real life.

Yeah, man, "no fear!", a lower class, redneck meme, now adopted by so called journalism. Catapult the propaganda, man!

[greekspeak]

21. "Just fear, no facts"

That is what they ordered!

[npincus]

22. "selected facts and distortions, 'cause fear sells"

[Norquist Nemesis]

24. Does that mean they're cancelling Beck's contract?

I don't watch it during the day, but as far as the evening's shows Dobbs surprises me every night. And Cooper's been doing a night "keeping them honest" series on Katrina.

I'm not too impressed with Connie and Maury. Only a half hour, one day a week, and little substance. Maybe they just haven't hit their stride yet. :shrug:

As to the rest of them, I have a hard time watching Wolf (he must live on that set!), I absolutely despise Daryn Kagan, and most of the other anchors...well, if they have no fear they certainly do make it obvious where their allegiance lies.

[SOS]

26. No Fear!

Until Rove calls and tells them to pull the "yawning kid behind Bush" video.
Then the frightened Bush lackeys click their heels and say "Yes Sir Mr. Rove! We will falsely discredit the video in any way you order us to!"

[Initech]

28. Wait a minute, the same idiots who hired Glenn Beck...

Are saying that they dont promote fear?

*COUGH* Bullshit! *COUGH* Bullshit!!!! *COUGH*

[Justice Is Comin]

30. With 166,000 viewers

in prime time, they better worry about paying their electric bill.