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CNN PRODUCERS TOLD ON-AIR GUESTS: GET ANGRY (Drudge)
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Posted on 09/12/2005 9:45:17 AM PDT by slowhand520

CNN PRODUCERS TOLD ON-AIR GUESTS:Ê GET ANGRY Mon Sep 12 2005 12:42:11 ET

After weeks of over-the-top Katrina coverage from the mainstream media, LA TIMES'S oped guru Michael Kinsley divulges that CNN has been coaching guests to artificially enhance their on-air emotions!

The TV news networks, which only a few months ago were piously suppressing emotional fireworks by their pundits, are now piously encouraging their news anchors to break out of the emotional straitjackets and express outrage. A Los Angeles Times colleague of mine, appearing on CNN last week to talk about Katrina, was told by a producer to "get angry."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cnn; demlies; katrina; kinsley; mediabias; partisanmedia; phonyoutrage
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To: slowhand520

Another reason to add to my list of reasons I never watch CNN.


21 posted on 09/12/2005 9:52:39 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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To: Spok
And don't forget the 900 FBI files on politicians that "mysteriously" fell into Hillary' aide -bar bouncer.
22 posted on 09/12/2005 9:52:59 AM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: Rosemont

I have to agree just about all of the reporting was over the top, I had to stop watching the coverage.


23 posted on 09/12/2005 9:53:11 AM PDT by thomas16
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To: mewzilla

Communist News Network


24 posted on 09/12/2005 9:53:34 AM PDT by proudofthesouth (Boycotting movies since 1988)
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To: Sam's Army
WHY'D YOU HAVE TO WOOP ME MOMMA?

WHY'D YA GO AND DO THAT TO ME MOMMA?

WHY'D YOU GIVE ME A WOOPING MOMMA?

WHY? WHY MOMMA? WHY?

And of course, Ms. Dion...

25 posted on 09/12/2005 9:53:53 AM PDT by SteveMcKing ("I was born a Democrat. I expect I'll be a Democrat the day I leave this earth." -Zell Miller '04)
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To: slowhand520

How long before they have to start selling the office furniture to stay in business?


26 posted on 09/12/2005 9:53:56 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
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To: thomas16

Commie News Network caught once again 'enhancing' the news for propaganda purposes....


27 posted on 09/12/2005 9:54:16 AM PDT by Enchante (Don't put up with Michael Moore-on's slanders anymore!)
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To: Sam's Army
Does that include telling local politicians to fake crying?

Some are crying because they know they are toast next election.

28 posted on 09/12/2005 9:55:11 AM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: slowhand520

That Phil Maher puke did the same thing but did it right on his show ... trying to get some Nwalins bureaucrat to cuss out Bush. Literally told him what words to use.

Sheesh! Surely the public can see through this.


29 posted on 09/12/2005 9:55:18 AM PDT by mercy (never again a patsy for Bill Gates - spyware and viri free for over TWO YEARS now)
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To: slowhand520

Oh no !!!

Next, you'll be telling me the Jefferson Parish President was faking it when he cried on Meet the Press last week.


[Oh, yeh, reports later in the week revealed that the nursing home administrator refused evac assistance -- twice. JPP apparently forgot that detail before his TV crying debut.]


30 posted on 09/12/2005 9:56:26 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: SteveMcKing

Brousard, the cry baby Randy Quaid look-a-like was found to be lying. His story was debinked by none other than CBS. I didn;t hear Russert or CNN running any retraction.


31 posted on 09/12/2005 9:56:31 AM PDT by Republican Red (''Van der Sloot" is Dutch for ''Kennedy.")
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To: dfwgator
So who coached Geraldo?

How about Shepard Smith?
32 posted on 09/12/2005 9:56:51 AM PDT by paulcox1978
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To: slowhand520
This is actually a capital offense in journalism. The News does not make the news - it reports it. This should be as damaging to CNN as a journalist who makes up stories. When you invite someone on to talk and then they get artificially angry, the story has been modified. This is slime. It is evil. This is news Michael Moore-style. We cannot depend on any MSM information if it is tainted this way, and as much as we deride their bias at times, I still consider this a bad thing. If Fox News ever does this, I'll call for heads. I love Britt Hume, but if he ever did something like this I'd exect him to be fired.
33 posted on 09/12/2005 9:57:27 AM PDT by mudblood
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To: frankjr

The question here is....can we get a Emmy category for best actor on a newscast? This way, we can have competition and some folks tyring really hard to ham it all the way. I'd be willing to be a victum of something...just to get my chance to act on CNN...preferably the guy who almost fell into a tar pit but didn't...and I'm mad that there weren't enough signs to show where tar pits are actually located.


34 posted on 09/12/2005 9:57:38 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: slowhand520

This is not surprising.

Consider that when news is breaking and being fed live, CNN can not editorialize by ommission or word.

A black looter in the water with a plasma TV is a black looting in the water with a plasma TV.

A coastie rescuing a dog is a coastie rescuing a dog.

This is just another way they are trying to spin left.

"Shocked shocked I say!"


35 posted on 09/12/2005 9:58:52 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: slowhand520
On air hosts were told to get angry, too...

Courtesy: Wuzzadem

36 posted on 09/12/2005 9:59:33 AM PDT by Minnesocold (Truth itself is the one enemy against which liberalism cannot prevail. -Christopher Adamo)
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To: proudofthesouth
No Blood for Ratings -- CNN, The Collaborators News Network
37 posted on 09/12/2005 9:59:43 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: slowhand520
You are now watching Mad TV....

MAD!


38 posted on 09/12/2005 10:00:03 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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To: SteveMcKing

They are all clelebrity/actor wannabe's anyway, right! Oscar time!


39 posted on 09/12/2005 10:00:17 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: x5452

It's likely the direction wasn't a bid for higher ratings but rather a device to ratchet up the impact of their the anti-USA propaganda.


40 posted on 09/12/2005 10:00:30 AM PDT by I see my hands (Until this civil war heats up.. Have a nice day.)
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