[A CA Guy]

They wanted to get their ratings out of the toilet I guess.

Won't and didn't work! :-)

[everlast]

Question: How many people died as a result of the heat wave?

Klinenberg: In 1995 there were no uniform standards for determining a "heat related death," so officials had to develop them. Edmund Donoghue, Cook County's chief medical examiner, used state-of-the-art criteria to report 465 heat-related deaths for the heat wave week and 521 heat deaths for the month of July. But Mayor Richard M. Daley challenged these findings. "It's hot," the mayor told the media. "But let's not blow it out of proportion. . . . Every day people die of natural causes. You cannot claim that everybody who has died in the last eight or nine days dies of heat. Then everybody in the summer that dies will die of heat." Many local journalists shared Daley's skepticism, and before long the city was mired in a callous debate over whether the so-called heat deaths were—to use the term that recurred at the time—"really real."

www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/443213in.html

[finnman69]

CNN is learning from Whorealdo.

[OKIEDOC]

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.

[Mo1]

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 >

[Inwoodian]

" You feel your pain".

[Retired Chemist]

I think Fox News Channel issued the same order!

[tiki]

Welcome to the Jerry Springer CNN show.

[tiki]

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.

[Cincinatus]

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!!"

[Texas Songwriter]

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.

[oldbill]

Not surprising at all.

Last year, a close associate (non-media average citizen) who was a witness in a presidential campaign issue was invited to discuss it on two MSNBC shows - Chrissie Matthews' Hardball and Joe Scarborough. He turned them down when they told him he would be paired up with left-wing media types (non-witnesses) because they wanted a screaming match, not a reasoned discussion of the issues. They were the actual words the producers used!

He refused to be drawn into a sideshow with a bunch of morons. More people should adopt the same approach and dry up the guest pool for these whores.

[oldbrowser]

I caught an interview with the mayor of Gulfport on CNN and the reporter asked the mayor:
(paraphrasing) Since the Federal government has done such terrible job of aiding the victims of the hurricane, what would you like to say about it ?

To his credit the mayor said he said he felt that everyone involved including the federal government had done a heroic job in dealing with an unprecedented disaster. Sure there were things that could have been done better, but overall he had nothing but good things to say.

The reporter interrupted him three times to rephrase the question and try to get the mayor to go negative and the mayor resisted and stayed positive.

[prairiebreeze]

TV reporters being encouraged to act like drama queens.

Surprise, surprise

[popdonnelly]

News manufactured in an attempt to increase CNN's ratings.

[popdonnelly]

Didn't work. I was watching CNN until they started ranting and raving. Now I'm boycotting.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! 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!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

[xzins]

There no longer is an information focused news source in all of America.

[FormerACLUmember]

CNN: "News you can trust"

[freekitty]

Am I surprised? No....