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LeftCoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:02 AM
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So on a scale of 1 to 10 - How appalled are you by CNN and MSNBC's press conf coverage?
Two networks with nothing to do but cover news 24 hours a day and they can't broadcast more than a few minutes of the most important news in weeks?!

I'd say I'm at level 10. How 'bout you?
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:03 AM
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1. I'll pull a Spinal Tap moment here: 11
"These go to eleven."
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LeftCoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:06 AM
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8. Seriously!
This is my WTF?! moment of the day. Here's this huge thing going on and they break away for nothing. Gee, I wonder why cable news ratings suck?
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:03 AM
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2. 42
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:04 AM
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3. time to bombard them with e-mails and calls
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IndianaJones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:04 AM
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4. 1. nt.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:05 AM
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5. Same ol' shit from our wonderful Pravda...I mean, MSM.
They should not be allowed to call themselves "news" networks.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:05 AM
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6. "news' organizations that cover for the white house
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:05 AM
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7. 0. *Blissfully unaware
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LeftCoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:07 AM
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9. Well, your blood pressure's probably better for it
:)
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:13 AM
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12. I can imagine
When I'm at my parents house I hear Blitzer and his goddawful voice and feel sick inside
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LeftCoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:32 AM
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27. Did you know
If you put your ear up against Blitzer's ear you can hear the ocean? :)
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LeftCoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:09 AM
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10. Link to CNN's 'Contact Us' page
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madfloridian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:17 AM
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14. I just emailed them.
That was an outrage.
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countingbluecars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:11 AM
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11. I'm shocked
and angry. I knew things were bad with the MSM, but this is too much. CNN covered a few minutes of the news conference-couldn't find it at all on any other network. If it were Paris or Anna...!
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:15 AM
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13. If we want our country back, we should be protesting against the media
We, as citizens, should be raising hell over what they've become.
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:17 AM
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15. oh my god. i'm furious! i sent both of them emails. what assholes! n/t
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madfloridian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:18 AM
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16. The difference between us and the right wing...
they would be bombarding CNN. We are not.
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:20 AM
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21. i also emailed msnbc for not covering it at all--instead their coverage
was stories that have been rerun a hundred times; stories on being fat and dogfighting.

now they are showing a clip of difi
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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:22 AM
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22. Are they giving Diane just a small sound bite?
Anything of substance?
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:29 AM
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25. they played one sentence of her talking. somehow i think she had
more to say than just a single sentence.

but who knows? no one covered the presser after schumer.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:19 AM
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17. I am shocked
10.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:19 AM
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18. You mean more important than the Beckhams?
come on, you must be joking.
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LeftCoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:30 AM
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26. I know...every time I think the MSM can't shock me any more
I hate that the media have made me this cynical.
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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:20 AM
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19. I give it this number
1984
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PearliePoo2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:20 AM
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20. In my mind, this tops the eruption of Mount Saint Helens
in exploded fury...(and I heard the mountain all day as she went off too)
I am PISSED!
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Blackhatjack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:24 AM
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23. I just sent CNN this message....
"How inept and oblivious can you be? The news conference held by Democratic Senators calling for appointment of a special counsel to investigate the current attorney general is history in the making. CNN has definitely degraded its credibility by making this decision not to cover the news conference in its entirety."
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:26 AM
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24. How about Fox?
How about Fox? Wait, there is no meaniful news coverage at Fox, never mind.

I think this morning they were devoting half their show to Lindsay Lohan. I don't know if they even bothered to get to the contempt showdown.
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LeftCoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:33 AM
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28. I don't think Fox allowed this story in their version of reality
Welcome to DU!
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Totally Committed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:39 AM
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29. I'm doing a "Nigel" and going for 11....
The MSM is complicit in the crimes this gov't. perpetrates on the people.

Now... if it was Lindsay or Britney or Paris holding the news conf., THAT would be different.


TC

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KAT119 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-29-07 02:54 PM
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30. 24/7 propaganda
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