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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

CNN is learning from Whorealdo.


81 posted on 09/12/2005 11:23:16 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: SteveMcKing

Celine Dion?! Was her fath... er, uh, I mean, husband with her?


82 posted on 09/12/2005 11:25:07 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Republican Red

Oh, I'd like to see that story! Was it posted here?


83 posted on 09/12/2005 11:25:34 AM PDT by GraceCoolidge
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To: Republican Red

Oh, I'd like to see that story! Was it posted here?


84 posted on 09/12/2005 11:25:53 AM PDT by GraceCoolidge
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To: slowhand520
If Bush and our government had responded with any rebuttal last week it would have been burried by the biased media along with all the other truth about this disaster.

As I posted the day after New Orleans flooded, that Bush would rebound big time from this disaster.

Now that all the gnashing of teeth, sack cloth and ashes have subsided somewhat we can now examine the truth without all the emotional baggage.

The truth hurts and usually hurts those most severely on the liberal left.
85 posted on 09/12/2005 11:27:16 AM PDT by OKIEDOC (There's nothing like hearing someone say thank you for your help.)
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To: slowhand520
divulges that CNN has been coaching guests to artificially enhance their on-air emotions!

Don't ya just love their fair and objective reporting ??

/ sarcasm >

86 posted on 09/12/2005 11:29:51 AM PDT by Mo1
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87 posted on 09/12/2005 11:32:19 AM PDT by timestax
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To: Republican Red

Thanks for the info. Now I understand why momma whupped him :-) Btw, I guess he was too busy to help rescue momma and her friend.


88 posted on 09/12/2005 11:32:39 AM PDT by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: pocat

p i n g


89 posted on 09/12/2005 11:33:29 AM PDT by timestax
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To: slowhand520

" You feel your pain".


90 posted on 09/12/2005 11:37:51 AM PDT by Inwoodian
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To: theOffice

p i n g


91 posted on 09/12/2005 11:39:29 AM PDT by timestax
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To: cweese

bump


92 posted on 09/12/2005 11:46:40 AM PDT by timestax
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To: Republican Red
Turns out emergency personnel went to the ladies house right after the storm and tried to get her out but the lady refused to leave. The emergency people have papers signed that she refused to leave. Russert and CNN never corrected the story

I can see it now. Had the authorities forced the issue and took her away, this guy would be yelling about the Bush fascist police state.
93 posted on 09/12/2005 11:51:36 AM PDT by kb2614 ("Speaking Truth to Power" - What idiots say when they want to sound profound!!)
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To: slowhand520

I think Fox News Channel issued the same order!


94 posted on 09/12/2005 11:52:37 AM PDT by Retired Chemist
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To: OKIEDOC

The best thing about Bush not responding is that it lulled the Rats into a false sense of security where they thought they could say anything they want. Now it is all on record. Strategery.


95 posted on 09/12/2005 11:53:13 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: slowhand520

Welcome to the Jerry Springer CNN show.


96 posted on 09/12/2005 11:55:16 AM PDT by tiki
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To: slowhand520
I know most of us can't boycott them anymore than we already do so what are our options? What can we do to make a difference? The news is no longer the news.

I think I'll start buying the Enquirer they seem to get it right more often that MSM and do it with less sensationalism.

97 posted on 09/12/2005 11:57:28 AM PDT by tiki
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To: dfwgator
CNN should hire Geraldo. Get him off FOX, so I don't have to keep switching channels.
98 posted on 09/12/2005 11:59:19 AM PDT by keats5
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To: slowhand520

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!

We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.

It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."

Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad!

I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.

All I know is that first, you've got to get mad!!

You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,

"I'm as mad as hell,
and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"

99 posted on 09/12/2005 11:59:23 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
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To: slowhand520

The first day Wolfe Blitzer reported on the riots and the video was air of blacks looting he made a statement to the effect, "They are just so black, and this will need to be addressed". He then interviewed a black Congresswoman whose name escapes me now, but at the end of the interview she admonished Blitzer to, "Keep talking about this. Talk it up". I remember thinking then that she was ordering hime to continue inciting the blacks in his broadcasts. Now this. It is in keeping with all of these players.


100 posted on 09/12/2005 12:00:27 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (E)
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