Posted by: Captain Haddock March 19, 2007
CNN's Racist Doper
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LOL Mr Truth - neat pics there. A bit hard-hitting I suppose but very creative :) CNN trying to be "Foxier" than Fox? :) Fox has evolved from a right-wing insurgency station to pretty much trash TV. It seems CNN is always late in catching up - it missed the right wing insurgency when it was hot in the nineties and now when the trends show the center is "hot" once again, CNN , by this example, seems a little late in spotting it. I, like many other people, have stopped watching the 3 major news channels for quite a while and get most of my news from public TV and some of the other news institutions out there that have the ability to deliver news without screaming. I have found there is sufficient conservative and liberal opinion in the "saner" media : NYT (slightly liberal), The Economist (slightly conservative), columnists like George Will and David Brooks conservatives) and most major broadsheets in the country provide a balanced left-right-center perspective. Not to forget C-SPAN, prolly the most balanced network anywhere on the planet. When I stopped watching the major TV channels, my fear was I would loose out on staying current with what's happening around me and would shut myself out from the voices of ordinary folks. The last one year or so has proved quite the opposite. By focusing on the quieter media, I have found I can stay much more informed about current affairs because I am not distracted by the shouting and high emotions that has become so characteristic of the three news channels. This allows me to get to the substance of the issue quicker than I could ever have by getting my news from Fox, CNN or MSNBC. I do peek in every now and then - I caught a few minutes of Chris Matthews the other day. After 10 minutes, I switched to C-SPAN again feeling vindicated and quite satisfied that I had not missed out anything :) Sorry if I digressed a bit but the discussion was too tempting to not reply. :)
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