What has happened to CNN? ( Archived) (21)

Apr 3, 2008 9:00 AM CST What has happened to CNN?
shipoker55
shipoker55shipoker55St. Petersburg, Florida USA211 Threads 2 Polls 9,362 Posts
I am so disgusted with news channels. They no longer have the news. They are filled with commentaries, which, means opinions. What happened to "all news..all the time?? We have Oberman, Beck, Hanity&Holmes, Robin Meade, Blitzer, McCafferty,etc etc etc!!

Can't we just get a news channel again? Why are we subjected to everyones opinions of the news?? Are we so stupid, that we need everything explained to us?

Even when there is a major news briefing, we get some fool telling us what we are going to hear....then we hear it ourselves.....then some fool fells they need to tell us what we just heard!!very mad very mad very mad
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Apr 3, 2008 9:03 AM CST What has happened to CNN?
tryandcatchme72
tryandcatchme72tryandcatchme72corning, USA7 Threads 1 Polls 401 Posts
shipoker55: Even when there is a major news briefing, we get some fool telling us what we are going to hear....then we hear it ourselves.....then some fool fells they need to tell us what we just heard!!

Thats for the same people who have to have directions to not sharppen a chain saw while running.
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Apr 3, 2008 9:04 AM CST What has happened to CNN?
shipoker55
shipoker55shipoker55St. Petersburg, Florida USA211 Threads 2 Polls 9,362 Posts
aha!!doh
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Apr 3, 2008 9:06 AM CST What has happened to CNN?
j_goose71
j_goose71j_goose71Over there, USA43 Threads 4 Polls 849 Posts
shipoker55: I am so disgusted with news channels. They no longer have the news. They are filled with commentaries, which, means opinions. What happened to "all news..all the time?? We have Oberman, Beck, Hanity&Holmes, Robin Meade, Blitzer, McCafferty,etc etc etc!!

Can't we just get a news channel again? Why are we subjected to everyones opinions of the news?? Are we so stupid, that we need everything explained to us?

Even when there is a major news briefing, we get some fool telling us what we are going to hear....then we hear it ourselves.....then some fool fells they need to tell us what we just heard!!

That's why I stick with local news and the paper.
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Apr 3, 2008 9:07 AM CST What has happened to CNN?
tryandcatchme72
tryandcatchme72tryandcatchme72corning, USA7 Threads 1 Polls 401 Posts
shipoker55: aha!!

Well you know there are people out there that have to have everything explained to them, and even sometimes then they have no clue. On ocassion this has been me as well!
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Apr 3, 2008 9:17 AM CST What has happened to CNN?
Rickster
RicksterRicksterNew York, USA24 Threads 3,362 Posts
Local news here. I think the best time to catch CNN is in the afternoons. That's when they have the usual "News Break". Other than that, CNN reminds me of Vista.

barf


wine
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Apr 3, 2008 9:19 AM CST What has happened to CNN?
j_goose71
j_goose71j_goose71Over there, USA43 Threads 4 Polls 849 Posts
Rickster: Local news here. I think the best time to catch CNN is in the afternoons. That's when they have the usual "News Break". Other than that, CNN reminds me of Vista.


Hey rick...I didn't catch it, but did you get your computer sorted out?
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Apr 3, 2008 9:34 AM CST What has happened to CNN?
Rickster
RicksterRicksterNew York, USA24 Threads 3,362 Posts
j_goose71: Hey rick...I didn't catch it, but did you get your computer sorted out?


Yes. Hugs gave me directions on how to get rid of of the black boxes. All oyu have to do is switch over to 16 bits from 32 or 62 bit graphic mode. Then restart the comp. Then go back to the usual 32 or 62 bit (default setting).

I was shocked as to how simple it was. Mind you they have lots of forums on how hard it is to get rid of those black boxes from Vista short cut icons. Very complicating too.

She made it very sweet and simple. My next step is getting rid of a "PSIService.exe" from "C:\WINDOWS\System32\PSIService.exe"


It's an active .dll application and very hard to turn off. It also makes it impossible to re-load the same software twice from the same manufacture.

I wonder if Hugs knows how to deal with this.

giggle
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Apr 3, 2008 12:43 PM CST What has happened to CNN?
HealthyLiving
HealthyLivingHealthyLivingSomewhere In, Tennessee USA527 Threads 2 Polls 4,775 Posts
Maybe they aren't allowed to. They receive their orders and are told what can be reported and how it is to be presented. Reporters get in trouble for just going out and giving us the news. It has to be "politically correct". The guild sensors our news.

I watched a video from BBC, on 9/11 where the reporter is saying that WTC7 just fell to the ground. The building is standing, in the background behind her. The building fell 20 minutes later, if I recall correctly. Somebody jumped the gun... oooops!
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Apr 3, 2008 12:48 PM CST What has happened to CNN?
drivenbysound
drivenbysounddrivenbysoundSoutheast, Missouri USA12 Threads 3,228 Posts
Rickster: Yes. Hugs gave me directions on how to get rid of of the black boxes. All oyu have to do is switch over to 16 bits from 32 or 62 bit graphic mode. Then restart the comp. Then go back to the usual 32 or 62 bit (default setting).

I was shocked as to how simple it was. Mind you they have lots of forums on how hard it is to get rid of those black boxes from Vista short cut icons. Very complicating too.

She made it very sweet and simple. My next step is getting rid of a "PSIService.exe" from "C:WINDOWSSystem32PSIService.exe"It's an active .dll application and very hard to turn off. It also makes it impossible to re-load the same software twice from the same manufacture.

I wonder if Hugs knows how to deal with this.


..and she said she was no computer wiz..how modest.

Glad to hear you fixed the problem.

(making a note to fire my brother and hire Hugz)
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Apr 3, 2008 1:04 PM CST What has happened to CNN?
mindfful
mindffulmindffulChicago, Illinois USA235 Threads 8 Polls 18,996 Posts
cnn=vista?
took me a sec to get it

hi rickwave

yup ship-its annoying
i also enjoy 'foreign' (is that an offensive termdunno ) news

anyway -
as far as the vista fix-
i have found tutorial videos on youtube for so many things...
soooo many things-and i love them cuz they explain and i can pause or rewind anytime


<<<<slowblues
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Apr 3, 2008 1:23 PM CST What has happened to CNN?
Fallingman
FallingmanFallingmanDublin, Ireland29 Threads 12 Polls 11,436 Posts
HealthyLiving: Maybe they aren't allowed to. They receive their orders and are told what can be reported and how it is to be presented. Reporters get in trouble for just going out and giving us the news. It has to be "politically correct". The guild sensors our news.

I watched a video from BBC, on 9/11 where the reporter is saying that WTC7 just fell to the ground. The building is standing, in the background behind her. The building fell 20 minutes later, if I recall correctly. Somebody jumped the gun... oooops!


This is a regular one....but on days of high drama and high stress people get things wrong....they say "has fallen" when the message is "may be about to fall" and they don't know which building is which so they don't realise that that thing behind them is the building they have just referred to. JMO dunno
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Apr 3, 2008 1:26 PM CST What has happened to CNN?
prncss4someone
prncss4someoneprncss4someoneHopeful, Michigan USA57 Threads 8 Polls 7,227 Posts
shipoker55: I am so disgusted with news channels. They no longer have the news. They are filled with commentaries, which, means opinions. What happened to "all news..all the time?? We have Oberman, Beck, Hanity&Holmes, Robin Meade, Blitzer, McCafferty,etc etc etc!!

Can't we just get a news channel again? Why are we subjected to everyones opinions of the news?? Are we so stupid, that we need everything explained to us?

Even when there is a major news briefing, we get some fool telling us what we are going to hear....then we hear it ourselves.....then some fool fells they need to tell us what we just heard!!






drinking kinda like when you are watching sports and they are discussing something totally different than the game on t.v. doh
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Apr 3, 2008 1:30 PM CST What has happened to CNN?
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Apr 3, 2008 3:29 PM CST What has happened to CNN?
HealthyLiving
HealthyLivingHealthyLivingSomewhere In, Tennessee USA527 Threads 2 Polls 4,775 Posts
Fallingman: This is a regular one....but on days of high drama and high stress people get things wrong....they say "has fallen" when the message is "may be about to fall" and they don't know which building is which so they don't realise that that thing behind them is the building they have just referred to. JMO


Understandable, but this is not the case here. They extensively report that the building has also collapsed. The Solomon building, which is WTC7.

Watch the video it's just less than 3 minutes in length.

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Apr 3, 2008 3:39 PM CST What has happened to CNN?
Indyfella
IndyfellaIndyfellaindianapolis, Indiana USA152 Threads 8 Polls 18,150 Posts
I bounce around from CNN to Fox to MSNBC to CNBC. I figure somewhere between all of them lies the truth.

Certainly Olberman is about as worthless as the ~~~s on a nun.
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Apr 6, 2008 3:41 AM CST What has happened to CNN?
kj12345
kj12345kj12345Taipei, Taiwan37 Posts
shipoker55: I am so disgusted with news channels. They no longer have the news. They are filled with commentaries, which, means opinions. What happened to "all news..all the time?? We have Oberman, Beck, Hanity&Holmes, Robin Meade, Blitzer, McCafferty,etc etc etc!!

Can't we just get a news channel again? Why are we subjected to everyones opinions of the news?? Are we so stupid, that we need everything explained to us?

Even when there is a major news briefing, we get some fool telling us what we are going to hear....then we hear it ourselves.....then some fool fells they need to tell us what we just heard!!


Why don't you ask the corporations that bought them out, turning them from "public trusts" into mouthpieces for their agendas?

The lie of a "liberal media" is just that, a lie. They are as liberal as the right wing corporations that own them, e.g Time/Warner, GE, Disney, etc.
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Apr 6, 2008 4:20 AM CST What has happened to CNN?
jonnybgood
jonnybgoodjonnybgoodMilton, USA12 Posts
The saddest thing is that their popularity shows the mentality of the nation.

News papers and news channels have been making our decisions for us for years.

All they have to do is plant a seed in the minds of the masses.
Not to mention that just about all major branches of the press are ran by Republicans..

A whale and it's calf got more coverage after swimming up a river then the hundreds of thousands of women and children killed in one African country.

Why did none of these channels or papers report on the signing of the north American treaty?

Soon we will have what is being called the amero.. It is the same as the euro. One currency for Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. (youtube search the amero)

Our bill of rights is already out the window.... Yet very few people have heard about something that is going to change the world as we know it! But that's OK we all know what Obama had for breakfast!

I think it should have been obvious when Giraldo got his own spot on one of those channels.. (remember when he gave away our troops location on live t.v. when the search for weapons of mass destruction started? Yet he's still on!

~JBG~
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Apr 6, 2008 4:40 AM CST What has happened to CNN?
tampa1
tampa1tampa1London, Ontario Canada56 Threads 3,057 Posts
shipoker55: I am so disgusted with news channels. They no longer have the news. They are filled with commentaries, which, means opinions. What happened to "all news..all the time?? We have Oberman, Beck, Hanity&Holmes, Robin Meade, Blitzer, McCafferty,etc etc etc!!

Can't we just get a news channel again? Why are we subjected to everyones opinions of the news?? Are we so stupid, that we need everything explained to us?

Even when there is a major news briefing, we get some fool telling us what we are going to hear....then we hear it ourselves.....then some fool fells they need to tell us what we just heard!!



Ship. It's all about Hillary....Get over it....
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Apr 6, 2008 4:46 AM CST What has happened to CNN?
tampa1
tampa1tampa1London, Ontario Canada56 Threads 3,057 Posts
Sorry I better shut up, free speach is not allowed in Canada ...
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