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A Lesson For CNN

By TChris, Section Media
Posted on Wed Dec 06, 2006 at 04:45:15 PM EST
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The decision-makers at CNN must be disappointed to learn that appealing to right wing extremism hasn't helped the Headline News ratings:

As mentioned last week, six months ago Headline and MSNBC were running neck and neck, now it isn’t even a horse race. The addition to Headline’s primetime lineup of the outrageous Nancy Grace and the slightly demagogic Glenn Beck has done nothing to close the gap.

Slightly?

Perhaps the ratings will force CNN to notice that viewers would rather enjoy a mix of rationality, humor, and solid reporting than vicious attacks and unsubstantiated innuendo.

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    That's what I was going to say... (none / 0) (#1)
    by Kitt on Wed Dec 06, 2006 at 04:52:33 PM EST
    SLIGHTLY!

    My sister said she watches him every once in awhile to get a feel for "the nuts." I don't even want to go that far. The last sketch I saw with Beck confronting Keith Ellison about being a Muslim and not proving he was a terrorist - that's just too freakin' over the top for me. I can't handle such idiocy.

    glenn beck is an alcoholic moron (none / 0) (#2)
    by cpinva on Wed Dec 06, 2006 at 10:56:56 PM EST
    who really hasn't had an original thought in years. he just recycles the same rightwingnut mantras, over and over. kind of like the topics for car or women's magazines.

    what's really scary about guys like beck, o'reilly, etc. is the banality of their spiel: they sound almost reasonable, until you actually listen to what they're saying.

    they aren't your classic raving lunatics, though raving lunatics they are. and that's what makes them so dangerous: you listen, and there's just enough of a hint of a grain of a nugget of truth, that an uninformed person might easily find themselves going "yeah, i can see that". that's how stereotypes get started too.

    pssh (none / 0) (#3)
    by scarshapedstar on Thu Dec 07, 2006 at 12:19:42 AM EST
    He's a Maverick (tm) who's Fed Up (tm) With Political Correctness and not afraid of Controversy (tm). Don't hate him 'cuz he's original.

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