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Turner: CNN Focuses Too Much on Perverts

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Posted by Fred 2005-06-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Most international news doesn't affect us, whereas the pervert of the day does. When you compare the number of murders over three decades to the number of victims of terrorist attacks, there is simply no question as to which is more deadly. (Of course, where the police are stretched to the limit trying to catch murderers, our military wasn't doing enough to protect us from terrorists. Until after 9/11).

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2005-06-02 00:22|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-06-02 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 is there anyone who really cares about Michael for him to rate the 24/7 coverage.

Fox has the best reporting - in that it actually reports, rather than proselytizes like all of the other news channels do. But even Fox has the same daily line up of Laci, jonbenet, michael, martha, car bomb, whip america with a wet noodle, and democrat blames republican.

In the new world where the news of the world, whatever I personally consider to be news, is at my fingertips in an instant - they just can't survive until they start reporting something of substance.

Posted by 2b 2005-06-02 01:41|| 2005-06-02 01:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Christiane Amanpour:

has she started to shave yet?

Posted by Red Dog 2005-06-02 01:43|| 2005-06-02 01:43|| Front Page Top

#4 lol, RD! I'm like Fred on this one though...when's the last time I agreed with Ted Turner? ZF is right in 1 respect...MOST int'l news doesn't really affect us, but I would like to see more int'l news on the jihadis (and not just the latest bombing in Israel). Cover more of SE Asia/Africa. Some stories appear on the surface not to affect us, but in the WoT, they just might if you dig deep enough. Of course, digging is asking too much of the MSM "journalists." I learn more about the WoT by 8 am on Rantburg than I could watching any Cable news channel (incl. Fox). Of course, that's what you get when you want "news" 24/7...you have to fill in the slow news days w/ more mundane/local stuff.

Posted by BA">BA 2005-06-02 07:46|| 2005-06-02 07:46|| Front Page Top

#5 CNN should cover international news and the environment, not the "pervert of the day," network founder Ted Turner...

Q: Mr. Turner, are you saying they spend too much time with Ted Kennedy?

A: We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Posted by Throluth Clush3562 2005-06-02 08:59|| 2005-06-02 08:59|| Front Page Top

#6 ack! im jus submited this. sumone pleeze taker it outta em cue.

goddamit im hate wen that hapens.

>:(

Posted by muck4doo 2005-06-02 10:29|| http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]">[http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2005-06-02 10:29|| Front Page Top

#7 thisn wuz my favrit part:

As usual, the 65-year-old Turner made his remarks with a roguish smile.

The media pioneer called CNN his greatest professional achievement.

And at one point he claimed partial credit for ending the Cold War.

Amanpour asked his if he honestly thought he had a hand in it.

"I'm absolutely certain I did," he said.

Posted by muck4doo 2005-06-02 10:33|| http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]">[http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2005-06-02 10:33|| Front Page Top

#8 This man has issues: "I wanted to be the New York Times of the airway -- not the New York Post, but the New York Times -- and that's what we set out to do, and we did it." Yes, you sure did.

Posted by Dragon Fly">Dragon Fly 2005-06-02 10:52|| 2005-06-02 10:52|| Front Page Top

#9 That's not quite the correct answer, TC3562. It should be:

Q: Mr. Turner, are you saying they spend too much time with Ted Kennedy?

A: We'll run off the side of that bridge when we come to it.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-06-02 11:08|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-06-02 11:08|| Front Page Top

#10 More international news = Bush is bad type stuff.
Less Pervert news = Stop pointing out the holes in the Democrats light on crime everything goes social agenda.

He may be right (I think it's a crime that the Michael Jackson/Scott Peterson/Robert Blake stories get any play) but I don't trust his motives.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-06-02 11:15|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com] 2005-06-02 11:15|| Front Page Top

#11 LOL! charp I Mucki!

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-02 14:09|| 2005-06-02 14:09|| Front Page Top

#12 "Turner: CNN Focuses Too Much on Perverts"

Says the man who married... ummm... Jane Fonda???

Posted by True German Ally 2005-06-02 16:57|| 2005-06-02 16:57|| Front Page Top

#13 Good call German Ally

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-06-02 17:00|| 2005-06-02 17:00|| Front Page Top

#14 Turner's pitch is that the news shouldn't focus on crime because it detracts from reporters telling us about all the great ways in which liberals can take money out of our pockets and hand it to someone currently on the their favored list - and pat themselves on the back for their public-spiritedness.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2005-06-02 17:25|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-06-02 17:25|| Front Page Top

#15 ima guesn ship now that em gipper an em popes ded he thinkerin he can safely clame that.

saw that noshen passed along sumwherez. :)

Posted by muck4doo 2005-06-02 23:15|| http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]">[http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2005-06-02 23:15|| Front Page Top

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