Observation about CNN's coverage of Sotomayor....

[AngryOldDem]

...whenever it thinks the discussion is headed into complicated legal areas, Wolf immediately goes to commercial. How is this serving the public's right to know? This has been going on all day. Some of the best and most instructive exchanges have come while CNN was taking a break. It's beginning to piss me off that CNN thinks I can't process anything deeper than a sound bite.

As soon as CNN cut to commercial, I switched to CSPAN, which had some House vote on. But MSNBC is still with it.

Take the ad breaks where they logically occur; otherwise whittle the hearings down so that they can fit into your nightly newscast and don't bother televising them live at all.

[JuniperLea]

1. I've noticed she's been interrupted...

Many times, by Republicans, when her answer is sounding very cerebral or when it lays waste to their plan to trap her somehow and she sets them straight. She takes it all with aplomb. I like her more and more every time I hear her speak.

[Atman]

2. Actually, judging by the time of your post, the hearing broke for recess.

Granted, CNN DOES suck royally. I don't doubt that Wolfie cut away every time the hearings made his head start to hurt. But you're not missing anything now. CSPAN is "recapping" during the break, showing highlights.

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[AngryOldDem]

4. It was just before, but the conversation was getting interesting.

They could have waited a few more minutes. It just seems that when they cut away in midsentence the excuse always seems to be they're heading into stuff that's just too deep for us ordinary folk to understand. Noticed that yesterday, too.

So why do I keep watching CNN? Good question.

[csziggy]

3. MSNBC cut as soon as Sotomayor started her discussion of FISA

In response to Feingold's question. I was pissed since I wanted to hear her answer. CNN did not broadcast either - I turned over and they were doing some sort of recap.

If there weren't such a distinct pattern I'd suspect they cut whenever the talking heads aren't able to understand what is being said. But it is much more systematic than that.

[AlinPA]

5. CNN does dumbed down coverage of everything. If there are no soundbites,

they don't try to cover it.