Zombie News Network
Posted on 03/22/2014 6:46:14 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Whaaaaaaaaaaat? The Clinton News Network doesn't want to get partisan?
So tell me, what have you learned that I didn't know 3 days in?
I can’t watch BOR anymore. He’s the most pompous self-satisfied character on FOX. He thinks just because he thinks something and says it then it’s true. He’s just not that smart. Can’t stand him.
That sure looks like a flying saucer over Reid’s head ... :-) ...
Ummm ... CNN didn’t find the missing plane, so why are they going to find the missing records?
I see your point. It’s not in CNN’s interest to find either.
Fox is the “Missing White Girl Channel”
CNN is the “Missing Plane Channel”
Fox has a better structure to their day, they have more popular shows, and ordinarily this means Fox will grow ever stronger.
There are however big news stories like this, where Fox FAILS to respond, and these big news stories are exactly what CNN is wonderful in covering.
I hate CNN. But I am watching them right now.
Fox wake the heck up.
This is a huge story. It is international, it is completely mysterious, and it isn’t covered nearly enough by Fox.
Very disappointing. I think the problem is there are bigger stars at Fox, and the network is less likely to preempt them, but this is a major exception.
Everything about this story is huge.
Fox get with it.
Onto the flight deck. Love their simulator stuff.
There’s a plane missing? I haven’t watched CNN since FOX started broadcasting.
That is precisely why this is a massive story.
CNN is way out in front, covering this.
Just saying. There may not be that much longer this story will remain in a floating mysterious mess, at which point CNN’s advantage will vanish.
But for now, they’re lightyears ahead of Fox.
You hit on a good point. I don’t think Fox is really a “news” channel as much as it is a “news commentary” channel. Any media outlet that sends Geraldo Rivera to cover a breaking news story probably isn’t serious about providing credible coverage of unfolding events.
I turned on FOX the other morning, looking to learn what was up in the world. I kid you not, they were interviewing Kermit and Miss Piggy, asking the pig how she stays so young. I turned on CNN.
They don’t call it Faux News for nothing.
FNC will never catch up on Breaking News if they insist on putting the unreliable Shepard Smith on all the stories (does everybody remember his Katrina coverage?). I am still in disbelief they have him, of all people, on the “Breaking News beat.”
I think your description is spot on.
Fox outdoes CNN in every story, every day, in every way.
Except the rare instance such as this, and CNN is LIGHTYEARS ahead of Fox. I believe you are 100% correct it is because CNN in this instance is still out front covering what there is of the story.
Fox is making commentary.
Bingo.
Completely accurate description. I am not saying CNN does a better job. 99% of the time they are sleepy and I cannot stand them.
But rarely something big happens, and this time they are light years ahead.
That will vanish once this is found, at which point their advantage will vaporize, but right now, they are leading Fox on coverage of this.
You mean Shep and Geraldo crying about the runaway child rape and cannibalism going on in the Superdome when they ran out of water bottles?
Yeah, that was a journalistic high point.
That’s surprisingly intelligent of Fox. Proper news organizations (which normally I wouldn’t include any TV news in that list) SHOULD be sleeping on the story, because it isn’t a news story. The plane disappeared, that was news, now we’re just speculating, that isn’t news. If it ever gets found it will be news again. Right now it’s just another “missing blonde” story like the networks were so fond of.
I think that is an accurate description of Fox’s decision making on this.
Unfortunately I believe their call in this case, is wrong.
This story is a giant mystery. What could possibly be more newsworthy?
It seems like fox will start covering this, once the plane is found.
At that point, the story is basically over.
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