![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
CNN hates you
Oct. 24th, 2007 08:47 pmHere’s a screen capture of CNN earlier today:
Click for image
Notice that the headlines are FIRE, FIRE, FIRE. On my Treo 700p cell phone CNN displays a special “mobile CNN” that reduced it to just the headlines:
The last one... “Saving marriages must be a national priority” seems a bit out of place. Oh well, must be an accidental placement. I mean, the author couldn’t possibly have known, when writing that article days ago, that the fires would be displacing HALF A MILLION PEOPLE and that claiming that the divorce rate is too high would seem distasteful, right?
But wait!
Click on the link! The first sentence is: “Americans are always good at touting an issue as a state of emergency in order to establish a sense of urgency.” Basically he’s saying, “Hey, we always spring into action when there’s an emergency, isn’t it about time we declare an emergency about the divorce rate?” Then he gives the tired old rhetoric that the Christian Right gives all the time that is code for “men should be able to beat their wives and women shouldn’t be granted a divorce just because they go to bed bloody every night.”
ZOMG!!!! How could CNN be so shameful.
Click for image
Notice that the headlines are FIRE, FIRE, FIRE. On my Treo 700p cell phone CNN displays a special “mobile CNN” that reduced it to just the headlines:
- Fight-fighters make headway as...
- Exhaustion setting in on fire...
- Front line fire crews fight advanc....
- In burn unit, fight-fighter battles...
- Super-rich celebs’ homes also threatened
- Commentary: Saving marriages must be a national priority
The last one... “Saving marriages must be a national priority” seems a bit out of place. Oh well, must be an accidental placement. I mean, the author couldn’t possibly have known, when writing that article days ago, that the fires would be displacing HALF A MILLION PEOPLE and that claiming that the divorce rate is too high would seem distasteful, right?
But wait!
Click on the link! The first sentence is: “Americans are always good at touting an issue as a state of emergency in order to establish a sense of urgency.” Basically he’s saying, “Hey, we always spring into action when there’s an emergency, isn’t it about time we declare an emergency about the divorce rate?” Then he gives the tired old rhetoric that the Christian Right gives all the time that is code for “men should be able to beat their wives and women shouldn’t be granted a divorce just because they go to bed bloody every night.”
ZOMG!!!! How could CNN be so shameful.
