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ABC World News Boss on Ignoring ACORN: 'We're Not in the Business of Noise'
Newsbusters.org ^ | 9-16-09 | Tim Graham

Posted on 09/16/2009 9:15:33 AM PDT by Justaham

Backing up his anchorman, Charles Gibson, who suggested on the radio that maybe the ACORN story "is just one you leave to the cables," World News executive Jon Banner extended the liberal snobbery on Politico:

While Banner admits that some stories may get more attention on cable, blogs or talk radio, it doesn’t mean they’re suited for the "World News" audience. "There’s a tremendous amount of – for lack of a better word – ‘noise’ out there. We’re not in the business of noise."

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: abcnews; acorn; chucklestheclown; cultureofcorruption; newsblackout; tedbaxter
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To: Red in Blue PA

XLNT


21 posted on 09/16/2009 9:23:35 AM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, passport, and school records.)
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To: DonaldC
Child prostitution is noise now. wow!

Yep. There goes those empathetic liberals showing how much they care about "the children." Lucky for ACORN they aren't Roman Catholic or the uproar would be deafening.

22 posted on 09/16/2009 9:23:39 AM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: DonaldC
Child prostitution is noise now. wow!

To the charges of child molestation, how do you plea?

Guilty.

Not Guilty.

OR

Noise.

23 posted on 09/16/2009 9:23:57 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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To: Justaham
Guess they have 'other' pressing issues to attend to.
24 posted on 09/16/2009 9:23:59 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (http://www.muckety.com/7BECFF40501E647D3741343C37265A57.map)
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To: Justaham

Unless it is a republican or conservative, then they would be all over it, but I know I’m saying anything that hasn’t been said before...


25 posted on 09/16/2009 9:24:05 AM PDT by ropin71 (God Bless our Troops!)
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To: ropin71

bttt


26 posted on 09/16/2009 9:26:10 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: Justaham

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27 posted on 09/16/2009 9:26:20 AM PDT by roses of sharon ( Reagan said, "When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.")
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To: Justaham

This is precisely why nobody under 80 or with half a brain watches network news. Who are there Advertisers?


28 posted on 09/16/2009 9:27:49 AM PDT by jazzo
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To: Justaham

Dead media? Old school media? OG media? We need a new term that is easy to say and not too swarmy.


29 posted on 09/16/2009 9:28:00 AM PDT by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet!)
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To: Justaham

just maybe they don’t deserve a Broadcast License


30 posted on 09/16/2009 9:28:36 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Justaham

When is the media going to remember that their rights guaranteed by the 1st amendment to our constitution was give to them specifically so they could protect we, the people, from a tyrannical government? Not to protect the tyrannical government from we, the people! Someday the media will have to be held accountable for their conscience decision to protect this government!


31 posted on 09/16/2009 9:28:53 AM PDT by Cricket24 (Sarah is doing it her way!)
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To: Justaham

They heard the noise of a congress critter tapping his feet in a airport in Minneapolis, MN. They heard it all the way in NY studios. Pretty darn good filters to pick that out of the noise.

They heard the noise of an illegally recorded phone conversation of Newt Gingrich in 1997. Pretty good filter to pick that one signal up out of billions of phone calls.

I guess all in all they are just pretty damned amazing.


32 posted on 09/16/2009 9:29:04 AM PDT by listenhillary (A "cult of personality" arises when a leader uses mass media creating idealized/heroic public image)
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To: Justaham

Hmmm... just went to their home page. Looks pretty noisy to me. Here are some sample headlines.

Special (above the fold)
ET Phone Home?

Top Breaking News
Cat Strays 2400 Miles, Returns Home
Cyclist With Beastly Cancer Rides for Cure
Thumbs up for Beer Fans at OktoberFest!

Viedo and Photos
Kim Kardashians Stomach
Jessica Simpsons Dog Stolen by Coyote!


33 posted on 09/16/2009 9:31:54 AM PDT by Spokane (Palin 2012: Change you'll be begging for...)
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To: Spokane


ABC: Obama Critics 'Driven By Refusal to Accept Black President'
34 posted on 09/16/2009 9:34:32 AM PDT by roses of sharon ( Reagan said, "When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.")
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To: Justaham

Who still watches the All Barack Channel anyway?


35 posted on 09/16/2009 9:34:42 AM PDT by lucky american (Glenn Beck Rocks!!! Sarah Palin Too!!!)
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To: Justaham

With ABC, they decide - you have to report.


36 posted on 09/16/2009 9:35:34 AM PDT by dforest (Who is the real Jim Thompson? I am.)
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To: listenhillary

I really have to wonder what the difference is between a break in at a Washington hotel some 30 odd years ago and this so called noise involving child sex trafficking, motgage fraud, tax fraud and who knows what else?


37 posted on 09/16/2009 9:36:17 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: madison10
"We're Not in the Business of Noise News."

Sadly LOL.

38 posted on 09/16/2009 9:37:30 AM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Power is not alluring to pure minds." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: roses of sharon

Rush just mentioned this story.


39 posted on 09/16/2009 9:38:59 AM PDT by txhurl (I threw up a little also when listening to this crazy preacher we have as a president)
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To: Justaham

But let Piper Palin get caught on video eating a grape in the produce section of Wasilla Grocery and the state-run media would break into scheduled programming with a bulletin announcing yet another shocking incidence of criminality from the horrendously corrupt Palin crime family.


40 posted on 09/16/2009 9:39:05 AM PDT by ScottinVA (This Revolution will be peaceful if possible; other than peaceful if necessary.)
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