CNN Perplexed by Calm U.S. Public

FreeMarketProject.org ^ | March 20, 2006 | Ken Shepherd

[freemarket_kenshepherd]

“We’ve fanned the flames of fear about this stuff,” said CNN’s Jack Cafferty on March 18. He was talking about bird flu, and his admission just confirmed the Free Market Project’s ongoing analysis of media coverage.

The “In the Money” co-host’s comments came as the show’s panel looked at “Stock of the Week” Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN), which has seen a 20-percent loss in value recently from overseas bird flu scares. Co-host Jennifer Westhoven marveled at the American public’s apparent nonchalance about the H5N1 avian flu virus.

“I’m amazed that Americans at this point are really fairly unconcerned” about bird flu and mad cow disease, the Bryn Mawr alumna confessed, noting that a drop in foreign sales of Tyson chicken has depressed company stock.

While the National Chicken Council stresses that American poultry is safe to eat, the CNN anchors failed to remind viewers of that fact. Guest panelist Allen Wastler urged investors to wait until Tyson stock “pounds down a little bit more” before snatching up cheaper shares, “because people always eat meat.”

[austinaero]

Could it be that no one watches CNN anymore?

[TXBSAFH]

Live right, eat healthy, exercise, don't smoke, don't drink, die anyway. Something has to kill you. Who cares.

[Andy from Beaverton]

Is the C-word network still on the air???

[Spruce]

First of all CNN is full of guano.

Second, every year we are inundated with doom-and-gloom predictions about the next 'killer' epidemic which never happens.

Third, if this IS a killer pandemic, what good will worrying do?

[Emmet Fitzhume]

Spot on.

I watch CNN for analysis reference what the anti-American left is plotting next.

Otherwise, it has zero value as a news agency.

[gun_supporter]

Maybe no one is panicking because all networks like the Communist News Network do is FEAR MONGER.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Nobody believes a drunken has-been like Jack Cafferty--that's why.

[jazusamo]

Gee, no matter how hard we try to panic the people, they just won't go for it. Typical CNN>

[Uncle Miltie]

Whatcha gonna do about it, eh?

[Obadiah]

Only two real explanations:

1) Nobody is panicked because no one watches CNN, or;

2) CNN and the MSM have a long and storied history of trying to whip up fear in the public and tell them that only the government will save them - preferably under a Democrat - and the public just ain't buyin' what the MSM is selling anymore.

You decide.

[stm]

Don't you just hate it when the lamestream media propaganda machine throws a rod????

[RexBeach]

My family is bigger than CNN's audience.

[Howlin]

Maybe no one is panicking because all networks like the Communist News Network do is FEAR MONGER.

And we "get" it.

Katrina was the tipping point, IMO. Now, nobody would believe them if they told us missles had been launched from offshore headed right for our houses.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

LOL! Wasn't he fired from one of the NYC Local news stations? I think I remember him being shipped off to rehab though. Haven't watched local evening news in seven years.

[Savage Beast]

Hey, CNN: Propaganda is boring!!! Anybody who's still watching you is asleep.

[RightResponse]

CNN Perplexed by Calm U.S. Public

Read: Mad Cow Disease

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

So a Lion, an Elephant, and a Chicken are sitting in a bar having a drink.

The Lion boasts, "When I roar, the animals of the jungle tremble"

The Elephants boasts, "When I Trumpet and Stomp, not only do the animals tremble, the ground actually trembles beneath me"

The Chicken Laughs and says, "Thats nothing, all I have to do is sneeze, and the entire world sh!ts it's self."

[mlc9852]

I'm just waiting for steak to be marked down!

[Unkosified]

Dear CNN,
More and more people are learning not to listen to you. It's your own fault. Turn out the lights, the party's over.

CNN = Constant Nincompoop News