Good luck I hope his head explodes and that poor weasle he has trapped on top is freed
9.
Violet
Cannot believe that Zucker sent them a congratulatory em ail. For what? Sucking the most?
10.
Schlemizel
I wish the crappy bastards were capable of shame so that this sort of public humiliation would serve to make them want to do better.
11.
beltane
They’re not even trying to out-Fox Fox any more. I’m not sure exactly what they were trying to do with their Boston coverage. Do they?
OT, but the Elvis impersonator was released. Authorities are now saying that the ricin letters were sent by someone who was seeking to frame the Elvis impersonator. In this case, his paranoia was well-founded.
12.
Amir Khalid
I’m a former journalist. I have seen dogs chase cars to more purpose than CNN’s people showed in this embarrassing display.
13.
Patrick
The most trusted name in news…
I laugh every time Wolf Blitzer repeats that line.
Speaking of news/Twitter, don’t know if this has been mentioned here so far, but AP’s Twitter account got hacked, released news of a bombing at the White House and BO injured. Stock market instantly tanked.
15.
maya
The fog of factual reporting.
OT, Apparently Elvis impersonators are not that dangerous after all.
Should have checked out west coast suspects first because everybody knows Ricin Roni is a San Francisco treat.
16.
maya
The fog of factual reporting.
OT, Apparently Elvis impersonators are not that dangerous after all.
Should have checked out west coast suspects first because everybody knows Ricin Roni is a San Francisco treat.
17.
beltane
@Violet: They were very good with the spastic arm movements, almost like they were at a Pentecostal church speaking in tongues. Not everyone can pull this off, give them some credit here.
18.
Violet
@beltane: That sucks for the Elvis impersonator. He’s clearly paranoid and this time they really were out to get him.
Which sort of suggests that privately the traders on Wall St. don’t hate BHO or think he is America’s downfall nearly as much as they like to claim in public. If their private thinking matched their public rhetoric, the market would have gained on that news, not tanked.
@Schlemizel: I’ve started out poorly (immediately started attacking rather than trying to get the Donald to trust/like me first), and I’m sure it will get no where, but I must confess, yelling at stupid celebrities in a quasi-public environment feels great!
He tweeted a classic “It’s cold in NYC today where’s Global Warming?”.
LOL Donald. Good one!
22.
YellowJournalism
The reporter who described the eerie empty streets looking as “if a bomb went off” deserves some kind of Dumbshit of the Year Award and that clip should be shown in journalism classes all over the country to discourage overuse of cliches and contextual awareness.
Good God. That makes the false arrest clown show look like prize-winning journalism.
28.
Keith
I’m surprised Jon Stewart found anything other than commercials when he switched over to CNN. Alternately, he could have just showed a compilation of CNN anchor returning from commercial break just to say, “When we come back, we’re taking you inside the Jodi Arias courtroom” followed by another commercial break.
29.
Trollhattan
Aaaand, CNN’s punishment for their really bad week of being really bad?
CNN’s journalistic reputation took a beating last week, but the flack it took from the Internet didn’t seem to prevent viewers from tuning in to the channel. On Friday, as Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was being cornered by authorities, CNN had its biggest full-day audience for a nonpolitical breaking news event since the Iraq War broke out in 2003, the network says.
And while Fox News Channel beat CNN in terms of overall audience, CNN smashed Fox among adults 25 to 54, the demo considered key in the news business. Specifically, during the prime-time hours when the manhunt was at its most tense, CNN averaged 2.5 million viewers in the demo, comfortably ahead of Fox News (1.9 million) and light-years beyond MSNBC (a mere 618,000). Two other fun facts: CNN’s prime-time audience Friday among adults 25 to 54 was more than fourteen times greater than its average in the demo during the first quarter of 2013, when it averaged 174,000 viewers in the demo. And almost as impressive, the 2.5 million demo audience Friday was more than six times bigger than the 400,000 viewers CNN averaged back in February for its breaking coverage of the Poop Cruise.
CNN / American stupidity – which is the chicken & which is the egg?
Forget it Jake, it’s Turducken-town.
32.
Ted & Hellen
Isn’t Jon Stewart the douche nozzle who organized a giant Both Sides Do It and Civility Above All rally in D.C. once upon a time?
33.
MattR
@Trollhattan: @Schlemizel: @ThatLeftTurnInABQ: I guess the question is if those who tuned into CNN for this event have learned their lesson and realized how crappy the coverage was or if they got exactly what they expected.
34.
The Moar You Know
CNN / American stupidity – which is the chicken & which is the egg?
@Schlemizel: CNN is but a symptom. This is a nation that, for most of its history, has spat with great contempt upon those who would dare claim that knowledge or intelligence are useful things.
He’s close. It’s actually “CNN, the most busted name in news.”
36.
Forum Transmitted Disease
@Ted & Hellen: I would have thought Stewart would be one of your all time faves. He beats on Obama like the President is his personal golf ball, and he’s got 36 holes to play and three hours to do it in.
37.
satby
Well, even though I hate CNN with a passion, I hate Fox Noise way, way worse, so I’m gratified that CNN creamed Fox in a key demographic and was mocked by Jon Stewart both.
@Mnemosyne: I remember it being mentioned when Curtis was first accused that he believed that guy had tried to frame him. Pretty weird stuff, if it turns out to be true.
43.
beltane
@Redshift: The new suspect is Republican former MS state house candidate J. Everett Dutschke, already in legal trouble in a child molestation case. You can’t make this stuff up. It’s like the whole state of Mississippi is trolling Wonkette.
44.
Bill Arnold
@Redshirt:
LOL, looking at the daily charts, that was a pretty sharp negative spike.
If we really cared, we would watch something else.
49.
Another Halocene Human
@beltane: And if so, Mississippi, well played. Tennessee has topped the charts since January but I think they’re going to have to dig deep to beat this story.
I took a suggestion on BJ and escalated from watching my FB feed for Tsarnaev news on Friday to watching the WBZ live stream. WBZ is a Boston-area broadcast station.
The ratings don’t catch that kind of stuff. Or like when I was watching a lot of MSNBC several hours later online. Or back when I watched TDS/Colbert religiously online.
Nor does it take into account the habit I share with many of my family members of tuning into radio or online radio feeds for coverage of a live event, rather than listening to the tv station.
What about all the people getting their news from twitter?
And that’s the sad part of this. CNN is not going to hurt one bit. People want to hear the very latest, whether it is true or not. This is not much different than the NY Post publishing a picture on page 1 of two young people that they accuse of being the bombers without an ounce of evidence.
People want to read/watch it. People find that interesting. Until it happens to them. Until they themselves are accused of something on page 1 for something they didn’t do. We get the society and the media that we deserve…
NotMax
Counterfactual News Network.
maven
‘John King is working his sources’……..
ranchandsyrup
It’s a simile because it uses “as” and not a metaphor, right? grammergodwin.
Redshirt
OT FYI: I’ve decided to troll Donald Trump on Twitter until something happens.
What a moran!
proterozoic
You have to hand it to CNN… I never expected to laugh so much over any aspect of the Boston attacks
Tripod
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords….
Redshirt
@Tripod: That one scene from The Simpsons aptly summarized modern media in about 10 seconds, hilariously.
Schlemizel
@Redshirt:
Good luck I hope his head explodes and that poor weasle he has trapped on top is freed
Violet
Cannot believe that Zucker sent them a congratulatory em ail. For what? Sucking the most?
Schlemizel
I wish the crappy bastards were capable of shame so that this sort of public humiliation would serve to make them want to do better.
beltane
They’re not even trying to out-Fox Fox any more. I’m not sure exactly what they were trying to do with their Boston coverage. Do they?
OT, but the Elvis impersonator was released. Authorities are now saying that the ricin letters were sent by someone who was seeking to frame the Elvis impersonator. In this case, his paranoia was well-founded.
Amir Khalid
I’m a former journalist. I have seen dogs chase cars to more purpose than CNN’s people showed in this embarrassing display.
Patrick
The most trusted name in news…
I laugh every time Wolf Blitzer repeats that line.
Redshirt
Speaking of news/Twitter, don’t know if this has been mentioned here so far, but AP’s Twitter account got hacked, released news of a bombing at the White House and BO injured. Stock market instantly tanked.
maya
The fog of factual reporting.
OT, Apparently Elvis impersonators are not that dangerous after all.
Should have checked out west coast suspects first because everybody knows Ricin Roni is a San Francisco treat.
maya
The fog of factual reporting.
OT, Apparently Elvis impersonators are not that dangerous after all.
Should have checked out west coast suspects first because everybody knows Ricin Roni is a San Francisco treat.
beltane
@Violet: They were very good with the spastic arm movements, almost like they were at a Pentecostal church speaking in tongues. Not everyone can pull this off, give them some credit here.
Violet
@beltane: That sucks for the Elvis impersonator. He’s clearly paranoid and this time they really were out to get him.
raven
@Amir Khalid: Did they stop to lick their nuts?
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@Redshirt:
Which sort of suggests that privately the traders on Wall St. don’t hate BHO or think he is America’s downfall nearly as much as they like to claim in public. If their private thinking matched their public rhetoric, the market would have gained on that news, not tanked.
Redshirt
@Schlemizel: I’ve started out poorly (immediately started attacking rather than trying to get the Donald to trust/like me first), and I’m sure it will get no where, but I must confess, yelling at stupid celebrities in a quasi-public environment feels great!
He tweeted a classic “It’s cold in NYC today where’s Global Warming?”.
LOL Donald. Good one!
YellowJournalism
The reporter who described the eerie empty streets looking as “if a bomb went off” deserves some kind of Dumbshit of the Year Award and that clip should be shown in journalism classes all over the country to discourage overuse of cliches and contextual awareness.
Redshirt
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ: True. It also scarily demonstrates the power of Twitter.
Amir Khalid
@raven:
They might have looked more dignified, if they had paused for something.
YellowJournalism
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ: Or they might fear a Biden presidency. Camero haters.
p.a.
Whoda thunk CNN’s highpoint would be when it was run by a drunken fratboy Brown dropout.
AliceBlue
Good God. That makes the false arrest clown show look like prize-winning journalism.
Keith
I’m surprised Jon Stewart found anything other than commercials when he switched over to CNN. Alternately, he could have just showed a compilation of CNN anchor returning from commercial break just to say, “When we come back, we’re taking you inside the Jodi Arias courtroom” followed by another commercial break.
Trollhattan
Aaaand, CNN’s punishment for their really bad week of being really bad?
http://www.vulture.com/2013/04/ratings-cnn-got-big-boost-from-boston-coverage.html
As always, “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”
Schlemizel
@Trollhattan:
People wondering why the big Z congratulated them? Those of us wonder why they are not shamed into improvement?
There is your fucking answer right there.
CNN / American stupidity – which is the chicken & which is the egg?
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@Schlemizel:
Forget it Jake, it’s Turducken-town.
Ted & Hellen
Isn’t Jon Stewart the douche nozzle who organized a giant Both Sides Do It and Civility Above All rally in D.C. once upon a time?
MattR
@Trollhattan: @Schlemizel: @ThatLeftTurnInABQ: I guess the question is if those who tuned into CNN for this event have learned their lesson and realized how crappy the coverage was or if they got exactly what they expected.
The Moar You Know
@Schlemizel: CNN is but a symptom. This is a nation that, for most of its history, has spat with great contempt upon those who would dare claim that knowledge or intelligence are useful things.
Calouste
@Patrick:
He’s close. It’s actually “CNN, the most busted name in news.”
Forum Transmitted Disease
@Ted & Hellen: I would have thought Stewart would be one of your all time faves. He beats on Obama like the President is his personal golf ball, and he’s got 36 holes to play and three hours to do it in.
satby
Well, even though I hate CNN with a passion, I hate Fox Noise way, way worse, so I’m gratified that CNN creamed Fox in a key demographic and was mocked by Jon Stewart both.
I can haz Al-Jazeera English, please?
Redshift
@beltane:
Trying to apply their patented Carnival-cruise coverage technique, perhaps?
Mnemosyne
@maya:
TPM is saying that someone else is suspected of trying to frame Curtis.
I’m sure Mojo Nixon is very relieved today.
Cacti
@Ted & Hellen:
Yep.
greenergood
@Redshirt: Visit Trump’s Scottish fan club! :-) https://www.facebook.com/groups/TrippingUpTrump/
Redshift
@Mnemosyne: I remember it being mentioned when Curtis was first accused that he believed that guy had tried to frame him. Pretty weird stuff, if it turns out to be true.
beltane
@Redshift: The new suspect is Republican former MS state house candidate J. Everett Dutschke, already in legal trouble in a child molestation case. You can’t make this stuff up. It’s like the whole state of Mississippi is trolling Wonkette.
Bill Arnold
@Redshirt:
LOL, looking at the daily charts, that was a pretty sharp negative spike.
DFH no.6
@Mnemosyne:
Down in the Bermuda Triangle, Elvis needs boats.
jomo
The amateurishness of the coverage is hilarious. It reminds me of the Little Rascals putting on their very own Broadway show.
Citizen_X
@beltane:
Come on, it’s Mississippi. You know how poor they are. They gotta get their kicks somehow.
Comrade Luke
I think this guy raises a good point: https://medium.com/on-the-news-media/c53bde1778d1
If we really cared, we would watch something else.
Another Halocene Human
@beltane: And if so, Mississippi, well played. Tennessee has topped the charts since January but I think they’re going to have to dig deep to beat this story.
Another Halocene Human
@Comrade Luke: Don’t we?
I took a suggestion on BJ and escalated from watching my FB feed for Tsarnaev news on Friday to watching the WBZ live stream. WBZ is a Boston-area broadcast station.
The ratings don’t catch that kind of stuff. Or like when I was watching a lot of MSNBC several hours later online. Or back when I watched TDS/Colbert religiously online.
Nor does it take into account the habit I share with many of my family members of tuning into radio or online radio feeds for coverage of a live event, rather than listening to the tv station.
What about all the people getting their news from twitter?
Patrick
@Comrade Luke:
And that’s the sad part of this. CNN is not going to hurt one bit. People want to hear the very latest, whether it is true or not. This is not much different than the NY Post publishing a picture on page 1 of two young people that they accuse of being the bombers without an ounce of evidence.
People want to read/watch it. People find that interesting. Until it happens to them. Until they themselves are accused of something on page 1 for something they didn’t do. We get the society and the media that we deserve…
grandpajohn
@Comrade Luke: I do