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Turn off CNN!
As this political campaign grinds on, the 24-Hour news networks have found their stride, and are producing news “stories” at break-neck speed, and talking endlessly about all these “Breaking” stories no matter how trivial. With the recent stock market crash, and actual looming disaster, the news producers certainly don’t need Viagra to sustain the excitement. After the Democratic and Republican conventions, CNN proudly advertised that more people tuned into CNN during the conventions than any other cable news network. Props to them, but now I ask you to turn them off! Do you have the feeling that this is one of the dirtiest political campaigns that we’ve had in decades? It’s really not, it just seems that way because that’s how it’s being presented to us by the news media. Factor in that each talking point they produce gets rehashed about every two to three minutes for twenty-four hours or more, and the saturation is soaking us to the bone. They have found the way to manufacture news, and they do it by taking any story and turning it into a huge story, by creating angle after angle, until they are discussing the media angles themselves. CNN Campell Brown’s prime-time political coverage on weeknights, bills itself as unbiased and “no bull”. Even with all those panelists and experts, the topic and direction of discussion is so manipulated, it really is bull. Though they may present a debate with two to three very biased “experts” arguing it out on all sides, the subliminal message driven by the programming directors is still the same. Regardless of the sound byte, regardless of the policy, regardless of the crisis, conflict, negative imagery, fear, human and personal loss, all sell much better than bliss. In terms of video imagery and the necessary descriptive dialogue, bliss is boring, and after awhile, you’d just get tired of hearing about happy and peaceful anyway, because it is not gripping. I always thought that news was supposed to tell me what happened, “who, what, when, and where”, followed by “how and then finally, why?" Inform me on these fundamental questions, unbiased, and then let me draw my own conclusions. And it’s not to say there’s anything new about biased and opinion rich media, is anything new, today we’re just exposed to more of it. And that is a large part of my problem with CNN and the other 24-hour news networks, they must fabricate news to fill airtime, so every possible story that can be dug up and presented with the most crisis, conflict, sorrow or fear, will be elevated to prime-time status and a panel of experts. When Obama was being attacked endlessly and viciously by the McCain camp, the story everybody was running was that Obama was being too nice. Now recently the Obama camp has struck back with a little more outrage at the false nature of the attacks, gone on the offensive over our wounded economy, and the result is that he is being dissected by the news media as a political predator, going for the jugular. “Has Obama gone too far?” In my opinion, (if I too am permitted to have one), is that no he has not. If his opponent makes a stupid or ridiculous statement, it is his duty as a candidate to point out their differences. Obama from day one has been crying out for change in a time when we desperately need it. It rings true. I do however, want to thank you CNN, for revolutionizing an individual’s ability to stay informed, at any hour of the day, on any day of the year. Your pioneering effort, along with the competition from the other news networks, have turned “The News” into an entertainment form that we the viewers can’t get enough of. But we all know what they say about too much of a good thing. Too much is too much. Sometimes you just have to switch the channel, maybe to MSNBC, or even Fox if you’re a big follower of the far Right. Let me warn you though, when you start searching from news network to news network, maybe it’s just time to turn off the television for a couple hours, and do something, anything. Turn off CNN. William S. James, Happy in the dark
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