COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA INSIDER
“Judge Slams CNN, Sets
Stage For Defamation Case: Network's 'Reckless Reporting' Constitutes 'Actual
Malice' “
CNN has such a long history of gross and stupid behavior
that you might think people would just stop watching.
But we all know memories are short, extremely short
sometimes. And besides, some people just like the noise of the television as
company at times.
I can remember how CNN literally dogged a poor security
guard named Richard Jewell over the Atlanta Olympics bombing.
Perhaps they had a tip from the famously incompetent FBI, an
organization which has pulled such stunts many times, but they had not one
speck of evidence because, in fact, Richard Jewell was innocent.
They would do moronic bits like photographing the poor man
as he left home for work, have a clumsy reporter stick a microphone in his
face, and keep filming as he ignored the reporter and drove off.
Pictures of a car driving down a street with a reporter
standing open-mouthed holding his microphone passing for news.
The guard proved not only totally innocent but something of
a minor hero. The real killer proved later to be an anti-abortion maniac. It
was totally wrong and shabby.
I recall also the sick piece of propaganda CNN tried to pass
off at the time America was bombing the crap out of Afghanistan.
They had a ridiculous video supposedly produced in Osama’s
mountain cave lair in which guys in a lab were developing chemical weapons and
testing them on dogs.
We saw the scurrying of undefined figures in sandals and
other ludicrous touches.
It was the most obviously contrived crap I've ever seen, and
we learned those caves of Osama's were simple and primitive shelters and
nothing more.
The killing of a dog was obviously intended to revolt the
audience into cheering for the bombing.
No responsible news organization would ever have broadcast
it, but CNN is not, and never has been, a responsible news organization.
I am sure someone could fill a book with such stuff. I long
ago ceased watching the Clown News Network.
They just work to keep the television screens full, full of
something or other, and they pay hack journalists to voice over words that give
an aura of suspicion or mystery or excitement.
It keeps people having dinner on the couch or travelers in
the hotel rooms watching, and it keeps the advertising rates up.
A genuine piece of American junk culture.
CNN to news is pretty much what Beyoncé is to serious music.
