The things that bothered me most about the way CNN was handling it were (and I went out to lunch shortly after it touched down, so maybe they undid some of the things they did): 1) It was never clearly established someone was in the balloon until it touched down. So why assume there is? Just rerport what you know. 2) Who the heck are the anchors to be questioning the way the kids parents were raising the kid (but remember, it would have been OK on FNC, since they are our moral police). Again, report. Leave the sermons for Sunday mornings and parenting advice to Dr. Phil. 3) A couple of reminders that it was all on delay anyway, in case something bad happened. Well, geez, why bother with live shots in the first place? Not because I'm bloodthirsty, but because it's life ... crap happens. It's like the coaches in our community that don't call in losses, for fear of humiliating the kids. Hey, the kids know they lost ... Rich
--- On Thu, 10/15/09, damonb...@gmail.com <damonb...@gmail.com> wrote: From: damonb...@gmail.com <damonb...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [BREAKING] Up Up and Away To: wnndl@googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 1:09 PM On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 16:04, Glenda Collins <glendamcoll...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Well what is really sad is with the world in the state it currently faces, > the news is bombarding the tv airwaves with this trivial story. Truly a sad > day for journalism. No wonder the world laughs at the United States. > As I perhaps have said before here, though, we can't *blame* CNN or MSNBC or Fox News for this. We have to blame ourselves. We're the audience eating it up. If we want media that are going to make sure we eat our vegetables, we have to support it through government funding (PBS, NPR, BBC, CBC), or we have to find an outside source that will not care how much money is or isn't made (Al Jazeera; many under-the-radar conservative and a few under-the-radar liberal U.S. news sources today). Otherwise, CNN doesn't care about whether people get dumber. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to wnndl@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wnndl+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
