A New Low

Goddamit CNN, do you really have to preempt your only good show for a press conference by the parents of a formerly-missing little boy?? I enjoy hearing about how this kid’s a brave little guy and about how Jesus is awesome or whatever religious mumbo-jumbo they’re going on and on about as much as the next guy, but you’ve stuck with this shit for 45 minutes now.

What the hell?! It just ended and you immediately cut to a montage of clips of the press conference that we just saw. Now you’re interviewing a guy that was there. At one point the text on the screen said “DEVELOPING STORY – Parents : Brennan told never talk to strangers.”

This is not news!


posted by greg on June 22, 2005 @ 9:30 am

4 comments

  1. What’s the one good show?

    Comment by Spasm — June 22, 2005 @ 9:54 am

  2. OK, I will generally agree this was a non-event and certainly not appropriate for 45 minutes of CNN’s time. Maybe 45 seconds.

    The other hand waves excitedly though to point out that one of my main complaints about “news” is that so much good happens in the world that no one ever hears about, while we are inundated beyond the point of caring with a steady rush of negativity. So-and-so was murdered, thousands killed here, another couple hundred there, body parts all over, fraud, embezzlement, bad, bad, bad, bad, and – let’s not forget – seriously shitasticly bad.

    Let’s hear some good news once in a while!

    Granted, I’d rather have 45 1-minute-long good reports (like the bad), rather than 45 minutes about one stupid kid hiding from his rescuers.

    Comment by Jason — June 22, 2005 @ 11:50 am

  3. Things like this make me feel much better about never watching TV news.

    Comment by Briantologist — June 22, 2005 @ 1:11 pm

  4. An amazingly orchestrated piece of fluff. When the Paris/Brittney wannabe sister said they now realized what an important part of the family the little guy was and how they’d start treating him nicer ??? – Do you think she’s seen ‘HOME ALONE’ one too many times ??

    Comment by fstsgt4 — June 22, 2005 @ 3:46 pm

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