CNN is reported to be in talks to buy the technology news website Mashable.com.
Need I say more?
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Showing posts with label CNN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CNN. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Sunday, June 26, 2011
CNN: Idiots of the Day
The movie Network was more prophetic then we knew...
This might be the most mind-bogglingly idiotic thing I have ever seen on cable news, and I say that having seen a lot of idiotic things on cable news. CNN has now upped the ante several degrees by devoting a segment about the economy not to unemployment, not to our nation’s financial institutions, but to the question of what if f**king psychics had all the answers?
Read more here.
This might be the most mind-bogglingly idiotic thing I have ever seen on cable news, and I say that having seen a lot of idiotic things on cable news. CNN has now upped the ante several degrees by devoting a segment about the economy not to unemployment, not to our nation’s financial institutions, but to the question of what if f**king psychics had all the answers?
Read more here.
Thursday, May 05, 2011
CNN gets in on the typo fest
New details on bin Laden's death
The raid on Obama's compound "was conducted in a manner fully consistent with the laws of war," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters.
Opps
Read more here.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
If you resist corporate commercialization of the Net, CNN thinks you're a fifty hippie
Our Overlords have Spoken
Internet activists, perhaps today's new generation of hippies, often chant the mantra that "information wants to be free."
The New York Times may have silenced some of them on Thursday. The venerable news outlet announced that 100,000 people had signed up for digital subscriptions in the first month since they were offered.
The NYT asking price is fucking expensive btw.
Read more here.
Internet activists, perhaps today's new generation of hippies, often chant the mantra that "information wants to be free."
The New York Times may have silenced some of them on Thursday. The venerable news outlet announced that 100,000 people had signed up for digital subscriptions in the first month since they were offered.
The NYT asking price is fucking expensive btw.
Read more here.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Who's to blame if CNN looks like a troglodyte?
It must be hard of those who hold the belief it is the woman's fault they are raped, a deeply held cultural belief, to have this belief questioned.
Makes their little heads spin, as the Toronto police recently learned (hello SlutWalk).
Here, a one LZ Granderson of CNN, safely removed from his critics by time and space, gives a convincing performance of a time traveller come from an earlier age.
LZ Granderson, author of the splendid piece we discussed yesterday, in which he admonished parents not to let their daughters dress like tramps, responded to some of the many comments he received on the article, and, suffice it to say, he wasn't moved by his critics. (Not that he seriously engaged any truly substantive criticism, anyway.)
Read more here.
Makes their little heads spin, as the Toronto police recently learned (hello SlutWalk).
Here, a one LZ Granderson of CNN, safely removed from his critics by time and space, gives a convincing performance of a time traveller come from an earlier age.
LZ Granderson, author of the splendid piece we discussed yesterday, in which he admonished parents not to let their daughters dress like tramps, responded to some of the many comments he received on the article, and, suffice it to say, he wasn't moved by his critics. (Not that he seriously engaged any truly substantive criticism, anyway.)
Read more here.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
CNN continues to downplay concerns over the TSA
What, does CNN have stock in those fucking scanners?
From the volume of the public outcry as enhanced measures have been rolled out at more airports this month, you might think Americans were getting groped right and left. But the Transportation Security Administration estimates that less than 3 percent of air travelers will receive enhanced pat-downs, which some travelers have called "groping" or worse.
Like saying only 3% of priest molest, so stop all your whining and turn a blind eye.
CNN says so, it must be true.
Fuck you CNN.
Read more here.
From the volume of the public outcry as enhanced measures have been rolled out at more airports this month, you might think Americans were getting groped right and left. But the Transportation Security Administration estimates that less than 3 percent of air travelers will receive enhanced pat-downs, which some travelers have called "groping" or worse.
Like saying only 3% of priest molest, so stop all your whining and turn a blind eye.
CNN says so, it must be true.
Fuck you CNN.
Read more here.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
CNN plays apologist for those f*cked up TSA pat downs
CNN, always the voice of officialdom, now wants us not to worry our pretty little heads about the latest security measures by the TSA.
Translation: stop whining about your civil rights! We at CNN don't value them, and neither should you.
or
TSA complaints: Warranted outrage? Or all bark, no bite?
Fuck you CNN.
Read more here.
Translation: stop whining about your civil rights! We at CNN don't value them, and neither should you.
or
TSA complaints: Warranted outrage? Or all bark, no bite?
Fuck you CNN.
Read more here.
Saturday, October 02, 2010
CNN fires Rick Sanchez
What was he thinking? Why didn't he just twitter it like all the other idiots.
CNN's Rick Sanchez made controversial comments on a Sirius radio show Thursday, calling Jon Stewart a "bigot" and saying that CNN and the other networks are all run by Jewish people.
Read more here.
CNN's Rick Sanchez made controversial comments on a Sirius radio show Thursday, calling Jon Stewart a "bigot" and saying that CNN and the other networks are all run by Jewish people.
Read more here.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
CNN becomes apologist for incompetent Oakland police officer
A former police officer convicted of involuntary manslaughter for killing an unarmed man in Oakland, California, apologized to the public and described his memories of the moments after the shooting in a handwritten letter obtained by CNN.
Maybe a full page article from the family of the victim.....?
Fuck you CNN, your bias is outrageous.
Read more here.
Maybe a full page article from the family of the victim.....?
Fuck you CNN, your bias is outrageous.
Read more here.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
CNN uses time machine to blame women...again
"Parents who shouldn't be allowed on planes"
It should be "Hack writers that shouldn't be allowed to write"
Whiny story about misbehaving kids on airplanes, with spends the whole time blaming "moms"
WTF CNN, is it still 1950 for you?
Read more here.
It should be "Hack writers that shouldn't be allowed to write"
Whiny story about misbehaving kids on airplanes, with spends the whole time blaming "moms"
WTF CNN, is it still 1950 for you?
Read more here.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Mohammed causes CNN's balls to shrink
From CNN:
Has 'South Park' gone too far this time?
...have they [South Park] gone too far this time with a depiction of the Prophet Mohammed in a bear suit?
No CNN, the ones that have gone too far are the religious bullies issuing death threats. Any group or organization that believes they have the right to kill because they have been criticized have already lost the argument. If you feel the need to demand respect, then you don't deserve any. Respect is earned by deeds, not threats.
The mindless of any religion need to be laughed back to the Dark Ages where they belong.
Won't stop them from being mindless bullies unfortunately, but at least we get to see them for what they are.
Read more here.
Has 'South Park' gone too far this time?
...have they [South Park] gone too far this time with a depiction of the Prophet Mohammed in a bear suit?
No CNN, the ones that have gone too far are the religious bullies issuing death threats. Any group or organization that believes they have the right to kill because they have been criticized have already lost the argument. If you feel the need to demand respect, then you don't deserve any. Respect is earned by deeds, not threats.
The mindless of any religion need to be laughed back to the Dark Ages where they belong.
Won't stop them from being mindless bullies unfortunately, but at least we get to see them for what they are.
Read more here.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Lou Dobbs leaves CNN. Good Riddance
CNN's Lou Dobbs stepped down from his controversial role as an advocacy anchor at the network at the end of his show Wednesday night after announcing plans to seek a more activist role.
Countdown to the announcement of his new job at FOX News in 3..2..
Read more here.
Countdown to the announcement of his new job at FOX News in 3..2..
Read more here.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
CNN: Iraqi shoe thrower is "unrepentant"...BBC: "tortured"
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Did CNN fake some 1991 Iraq coverage?
Interesting, but hard to make a definitive judgement from just this evidence.
Certainly, the first Gulf War made CNN.
Monday, August 18, 2008
CNN moralizes
The BBC reports a story this way:
US talk show host Ellen Degeneres marries her long-time partner, actress Portia de Rossi, her publicist confirms.
Fine, a reporting of the facts.
CNN on the other hand:
Ellen DeGeneres 'marries' Portia Rossi
Note the use of quote marks. Have to make sure we know they don't approve.
UPDATE: CNN has changed it to:
Ellen DeGeneres reportedly weds Portia Rossi
Yeah, that is *so* much better.
Read more here.
US talk show host Ellen Degeneres marries her long-time partner, actress Portia de Rossi, her publicist confirms.
Fine, a reporting of the facts.
CNN on the other hand:
Ellen DeGeneres 'marries' Portia Rossi
Note the use of quote marks. Have to make sure we know they don't approve.
UPDATE: CNN has changed it to:
Ellen DeGeneres reportedly weds Portia Rossi
Yeah, that is *so* much better.
Read more here.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
CNN readers respond angrily to 'race or gender' story
At least CNN is reporting this. Good for the readers!
Within minutes of posting a story on CNN's homepage called "Gender or race: Black women voters face tough choices in South Carolina," readers reacted quickly and angrily.
Many took umbrage at the story's suggestion that black women voters face "a unique, and most unexpected dilemma" about voting their race or their gender.
CNN received dozens of e-mails shortly after posting the story, which focuses largely on conversations about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama that a CNN reporter observed at a hair salon in South Carolina whose customers are predominantly African-American.
The story states: "For these women, a unique, and most unexpected dilemma, presents itself: Should they vote their race, or should they vote their gender?" Read the story
An e-mailer named Tiffany responded sarcastically: "Duh, I'm a black woman and here I am at the voting booth. Duh, since I'm illiterate I'll pull down the lever for someone. Hm... Well, he black so I may vote for him... oh wait she a woman I may vote for her... What Ise gon' do? Oh lordy!"
Within minutes of posting a story on CNN's homepage called "Gender or race: Black women voters face tough choices in South Carolina," readers reacted quickly and angrily.
Many took umbrage at the story's suggestion that black women voters face "a unique, and most unexpected dilemma" about voting their race or their gender.
CNN received dozens of e-mails shortly after posting the story, which focuses largely on conversations about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama that a CNN reporter observed at a hair salon in South Carolina whose customers are predominantly African-American.
The story states: "For these women, a unique, and most unexpected dilemma, presents itself: Should they vote their race, or should they vote their gender?" Read the story
An e-mailer named Tiffany responded sarcastically: "Duh, I'm a black woman and here I am at the voting booth. Duh, since I'm illiterate I'll pull down the lever for someone. Hm... Well, he black so I may vote for him... oh wait she a woman I may vote for her... What Ise gon' do? Oh lordy!"
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