19 Responses to CNN is Making News

  1. PencilvaniaPencilvania says:
    27 Jun 2017 at 20:36

    Yes, it seems to be all about ratings, as the producer tells O’Keefe, and the WH knows it too. Yesterday when CNN’s Jim Acosta yelled at Sean Spicer during a briefing, Spicer replied drily ‘there’s no camera on, Jim.’ oof.

  2. 10 Cents10 Cents says:
    27 Jun 2017 at 21:12

    Elections have consequences. There is no legal right to put money into the networks pocket. They are doing hit pieces to get ratings but they need video to do that. The networks did not cover their bases with even the modicum of fairness so they are being hurt where it hurts most.

    They still don’t get it. No one needs them. Anyone connected to a computer or a friend with a computer can get the information without a filter. Unfiltered info is what they fear most because they lose their jobs.

    • AvatarEThompson says:
      28 Jun 2017 at 02:32

      “They still don’t get it. No one needs them.”

      That’s the understatement of the year and in fact, we’d be better informed without them. I still respect IBD and love all the gang on Fox (except Juan Williams who is just plain tedious), but I’m thoroughly enjoying receiving my updates straight from the source himself.

      I think this is a brilliant strategy and one I suspect he exercised at Trump Intl. all along.

  3. Avatarctlaw says:
    27 Jun 2017 at 22:06

    The key is where he admits they would not similarly scrutinize Obama:

    https://youtu.be/jdP8TiKY8dE?t=327

  4. PencilvaniaPencilvania says:
    27 Jun 2017 at 22:06

    I heard Sharyl Atkisson yesterday, she explained that DC has operated for decades on access to politicians & lobbyists, and Trump threatens that whole established order, since he won’t play their game. It’s kind of like projection on the media’s part -they keep accusing Trump of colluding, making secret deals – because that’s how they themselves have traded in order to get scoops.

  5. drlorentzdrlorentz says:
    28 Jun 2017 at 00:29

    No one is surprised that the media business is a business, and hence that their primary goal is to make money. Orson Wells made the same point in Citizen Kane. At most, people need a reminder once in a while.

    The public already is plenty skeptical about news. The more skepticism the better. CNN’s gambit for higher ratings is working for now but it’s short-term thinking. As they are caught out more often, their ratings will crash.

    Project Veritas broken some remarkable stories that were truly newsworthy in the sense that they told us something we didn’t already know: something new. After all, the word “news” comes from the plural of “new.” The ACORN and Planned Parenthood stories come to mind. I’m glad they’re out there.

    • AvatarEThompson says:
      28 Jun 2017 at 06:55

      “No one is surprised that the media business is a business, and hence that their primary goal is to make money.”

      Speaking as one who has focused upon making the donuts my entire adult life (and made no apologies for it!), this is what puzzles me:

      The American consumer is savvier and far more demanding than ever before. If you provide them with an inadequate or even less than stellar product, they will walk away.

      This leads me to my next observation about the market re: the MSM; obviously, consumers have been far too lazy and woefully ignorant to reject the fake news they’ve been receiving from the MSM.

      Consumers reap what they sow. One of the greatest things about the American economy is that the customer calls the shots. This should and does for the most part make all companies work harder to innovate and compete.

      After all, an uninformed public is the easiest of all to manipulate, so in the end, I blame Americans.

      • drlorentzdrlorentz says:
        28 Jun 2017 at 15:57

        “The American consumer is savvier and far more demanding than ever before. If you provide them with an inadequate or even less than stellar product, they will walk away.”

        The American public treats the “news” as the infotainment it is. It’s not clear to me that they expect more. The product is as good as it needs to be. There are plenty of accidents and disasters (if it bleeds, it leads), scandals, and some human interest/weird news stories thrown in for variety.

        It’s not as if people live their lives according to what they’re being told by the MSM. Everyday life has little to do with what’s reported as news. The weather is an exception. The predictions aren’t too accurate but by golly, when they report that the high was 73 today you can take that to the bank. Same goes for sunrise/sunset times. Everything else in the paper, take that with a grain of salt.

  6. AvatarEJHill says:
    28 Jun 2017 at 01:44

    What I said on “another site” :

    Have already seen one defense of CNN in the media using the Planned Parenthood Defense: “Be aware, though, that it’s not clear whether more raw footage exists or whether the video has been selectively edited.”

    That’s from heavy.com.

    It is, by far, my favorite charge against O’Keefe. In a desperate attempt to discredit him and other conservative undercover reporters, people who totally understand how television works try to convince the most media savvy generation of all-time that only these videos are “selectively edited.”

    To make that case you’d have to assert that all other media companies do NOT selectively edit their reports. Like CNN and the legacy nightly newscasts all have rooms full of monkeys editing their stuff in some random order without regard to content. “Yeah, we just tell the monkeys to keep all our stuff down to a minute-fifteen. It’s totally incomprehensible but it keeps the show moving and our viewers don’t seem to notice.”

  7. PencilvaniaPencilvania says:
    28 Jun 2017 at 01:59

    Great point, EJ – and here’s hoping there will be Trumpian irony in that ‘defense’: that there will be calls for the full raw footage to be shown, and that it exposes even more embarrassing CNN details.

  8. TKC1101TKC1101 says:
    28 Jun 2017 at 04:59

    CNN is making news like sausages.

    The rot in our institutions is staggering.

  9. Vald the MisspellerVald the Misspeller says:
    29 Jun 2017 at 00:22

    Is it petty of me to say that Jeff Zucker is the perfect ‘face’ of CNN, like Jabba the Hutt having a bad no-hair day? Why yes, yes it is.

    • 10 Cents10 Cents says:
      29 Jun 2017 at 00:42

      Vald, everyone is petty in your hands man. You could even find fault in someone as perfect as me. (What rank were you in the navy by the way?)

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