93henfan wrote:Baldy wrote:
Why does CNN always, I mean ALWAYS step on their dick?
The past year and a half or so really has been thoroughly enjoyable to watch. They and the rest of the MSM have flailed so badly with “BREAKING NEWS” every single day that even liberals don’t pay attention to their bullshit anymore.
Hell, even the worst mass shooting in US history becomes an afterthought in two weeks when you flood the news cycle with constant noise. I remember the name Lee Harvey Oswald and Charles Whitman, but I’ve already forgotten the name of the Vegas shooter.
I’m sure there have been many books written on how to generate apathy in a culture and by golly have they succeeded.
CNN is the network version of the "boy who cried wolf". Ever since election night, when Ana Navarro, before any results were known, was almost literally foaming at the mouth over her joy that the Latino vote would defeat Trump only to have her descend into a fit of madness when it became clear that Trump won, and when that Van Jones guy literally cried on the set when he worried about what the next day would look like with Trump as the President-elect, CNN has been in full crisis mode regarding anything Trump. For a news site that used to be so informative and, even if not neutral was at least sane, to go so far down the rabbit hole and meet up with Jelly in their shared hatred of anything Trump, and to entertain any and all ideas of evil and malfeasance that anyone could imagine Trump doing, has been horrifying to watch. It's like a slow-motion, full gore, depiction of a fatal car crash - just despairing to have to watch. I hope when Trump departs the scene, in either 2021 or 2025, or sooner if his health fails him, that CNN eventually returns to a semblance of the journalistic outlet they used to be, rather than the myopic, bitter disaster they are now.