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BayouBengal07 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 12:34 PM
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CNN is trolling shooting victims' Facebook pages
And reading their friends tributes to them.

Is that disgusting, not news, or both?
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DUyellow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 12:35 PM
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1. tsk tsk tsk
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 12:35 PM
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2. life without cnn or msnbc is really nice
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 12:36 PM
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3. it's disgusting. n/t
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 12:37 PM
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4. It is disgusting and it's not news.
But people need to remember that Facebook and anything else on the Internet is available for the whole world to see and for ghouls in the news media to exploit if the occasion arises. If you don't want it on CNN, don't put it on the Internet because if they find it and it relates to some story, they'll use it.
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 12:37 PM
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5. That may be diisgusting, that may not be news, but that ...
is a 24-hour news cycle. This is what happens when you have to feed the beast 24 hours a day.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 12:49 PM
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6. first thing, it's sweeps month ... and second, did they get the tears of the mothers
as they were told their kids were the ones who died?

The shootings come at a great time for the networks ...
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 12:51 PM
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7. you're watching, stop feeding the beast.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 12:52 PM
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8. Change the channel or turn it off.
BTW, SportsCenter is on!
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Tindalos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 12:54 PM
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9. This is what passes for journalism today.
Unfortunately they don't know how to do anything else.
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Dimensio0 Donating Member (381 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 12:56 PM
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10. It is both. n/t
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loser_user Donating Member (155 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-15-08 01:26 PM
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11. I don't watch CNN
If I watch the news it's usually PBS or BBC. And the best news to listen to listen to in my opinion is Free Speech Radio News:

http://www.fsrn.org/
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