Does this mean it's safe to turn the tv back on again?
I will say its not just CNN's fault, either. CNN has been pushing for satellite and cable operators to carry 24/7 CNN-International feeds. Dish Network used to have it 12 hours a day with CNN-fn, but when that channel bit the dust, away went CNN-I. These operators need to step up to the plate and put these hard news channels on their systems. I want BBC World and CNN-I both on Dish...NOW!!!
Posted by roamer at June 7, 2005 07:30 AMRoamer,
What you say may explain why CNNI is not available to cable/dish customers along with CNN itself. What that DOES NOT explain, however, is why CNNI is a high-level, traditional hard-news programming/reporting outfit with competent and challenging anchors, yet we get the "People Magazine of the Airwaves" schlock that CNN has become.
Other than purely corporate profits-driven factors, or a crass "the public doesn't want us to report on matters of real consequence" mentality, I can't figure it out. As for profits, I believe they get tons of money by doing the video news segments for local stations, but their viewship is in the tank.
So Roamer, or anyone else, what are your thoughts?
P.S. What times and days are the simulcasts occurring in the Eastern time zone?
Posted by Analytical Liberal at June 7, 2005 09:43 AMI cannot explain corporate motives, analytical, but what I can tell you is that CNN-I and the American CNN are vastly different. CNN-I is more like BBC World, whereas, American CNN is more like a trash tabloid paper. When one travels outside of the US, one is very able to see the crap we're being fed. I simply don't watch American news channels anymore. I use the internet or CBC from Canada, since I live in a border area.
Posted by roamer at June 7, 2005 12:27 PMThe honest foreign news was allowed for a reason.
The topic was Sudan. It was not Iraq, Afghanistan, or the location of any other US foreign policy fiasco. It was not Israel. It was not the site of an embarassing US ally like Uzbekistan or Saudi Arabia or Russia. Nor was it one of the vast majority of countries that hate the U.S.
Sudan is a free-hate zone. Consisting of dark-skinned muslim leaders who are commiting atrocities. Also the location of a decent sized pool of oil and in a good position for a future American "International Police Station" (IPS) in North Africa, a la the Middle East IPS that the US now owns in Iraq.
So, for Sudan, truthful reporting is to be encouraged. At least until the bombing begins.
Posted by Shhhh at June 7, 2005 07:55 PMThe sad thing about CNN's recent celebration of its 25 years in existence is to remind people who've been paying attention that it has sunk as low as it has.
Posted by Brian Boru at June 7, 2005 09:19 PM