If you’ve turned on CNN at all in the past few days you know that the network — now under the command of Jeff Zucker, the man who molded NBC into what it is today — has essentially devoted itself to wall to wall coverage of the nightmare poop cruise floating aimlessly in the Gulf of Mexico. Even this morning, as space rocks probably not unlike the ones believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs rain down upon us, CNN has been all nightmare poop cruise, all the time with seemingly half of its on-air talent dispatched to Mobile, Alabama and New Orleans to interview the “survivors” of horrors one of them — them being CNN’s on-air talent — actually compared to Hurricane Katrina. If only the giant space rocks were covered in human waste, maybe then CNN would pay attention to them?
Last night on the Daily Show, Jon Stewart devoted his opening couple of minutes to mocking CNN mercilessly for its wall-to-wall coverage of the “Ship of Stools,” and we are all better for it. Enjoy.
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Say goodbye to true journalism, folks. And we better cling to 60 minutes like it’s the last helicopter out of Nam.
There’s still PBS and the BBC. Rachel Maddow & Shep Smith do some good stuff.
pbs is where it’s at
PBS & the BBC are just as bad as the rest, they just fool dumb people into thinking they’re highbrow and so above it all.
Regardless of your own politics, you can tune in to 60 minutes for a good 42 minutes (+ commercials) of fair non-partisan information. You can’t say that about Fox News or MSNBC. PBS is only a threat to people who oppose knowing things.
Best point I’ve ever heard about news coverage comes from a source I can no longer reference because I don’t remember; but the message is golden. “The news used to tell you what happened, now it tells you who won.”
RomanCandle is already living the “Idiocracy” dream. Damn eliitists with their news served up in larger than 10 second chunks, with “follow up” and “questions”. Pppthhhht!
pbs is not near as bad as fox, cnn, cbs, or msnbc. yeah it’s got a little liberal slant, seeing as how they’re public funded, but overall not too shabby. bbc is my go to for international news.
I said “as bad as the rest”, implying I hate the other cable news networks too.
This will come as a shock to many of you, but a person disagreeing with you is not prima facie evidence that they’re an idiot.
RomanCandle, I’d suggest you read your first post again in light of your revelation just now.
“And we better cling to 60 minutes like it’s the last helicopter out of Nam”
Hahhahahaha from Nam, Oh God. Epic phrase
“true journalism” when did this ever exist? Or are you just making an assumption that vintage news was more objective and non-partisan based on todays pundit climate? Where is your evidence of this?
I agree with Digital Wonderbread. And it isn’t that journalism was necessarily great in the past. William Randolph Hearst immediately comes to mind. But before the modern FOX model, we had more balance overall and there was more focus on reporting. Now it’s opinion-driven rather than story-driven, overwhelmingly. In the 90′s CNN was the go-to network around the world. Now insane opinions drive ratings and money and everyone has cut their international staff in order to pay the partisan stars.
Stewart’s takedown showed this. While we were busy freaking out about a trivial local story, there were major world events taking place. We always do this. The modern American media will spend days or weeks on dissecting partisan political issues and ignore major stories around the world.
@Romo’s boner- The truth has a liberal slant
a libertarian slant, and you’d be right on point.
Must we say it yet again, the 24-hour new cycle does more harm than good? You want evidence that journalism was better in the past – here’s your smoking gun. Woodward and Bernstein would have had to make several blog posts per day just to keep the public’s interest in their eventual revelation. How easy would it have been to discredit a blog?
I see a dark future for free information.
@RomanCandle
yes BBC is highbrow for dumb people… Here in ‘Merica, we don’t got no use for “World News”.
Plane escalators FTW.
am i the only one that thinks jon stewart sucks?
Pretty much.
Yep
Don’t laugh at your own “jokes”–should be first rule for comedians.
@Rawhead Wrecks – There should be no rules for comedians … they should be funny. Like John Stewart.
jon stewart sucks
most definitely
Excellent Haiku:
Tony Romo’s Boner Jon Stewart sucks
Am I the only one who thinks
Tony Romo’s Boner Jon Stewart Sucks.
Was this intentional?
Aaaaand I f’d it up
Tony Romo’s boner am I
only one who thinks Jon Stewart sucks
Romo’s boner jon stewart sucks
I think he’s overrated as hell.
Ahhhh the sure sign of a deep thinker.
xxxx sucks.
Your wisdom hurts, sir. Can you dumb it down a little?
digital wonderbread sucks
I prefer “Doo-Doo Boat”.
In retrospect, perhaps making the culinary theme of this cruise “Exploring the Wonders of Mexican and Thai Cuisine” was not such a good idea.
“Ship of Poos” would also be an acceptable alternative to “Ship of Stools.”
Holy crap:
[www.cbsnews.com]
Please tell me you work for The Onion
Cruises are vacations for lazy people who hate adventure. This experience was probably character building for them.
Stacey- that was a brilliant anal-ysis
Mitchell Hurwitz is now frantically reshooting all the completed scenes of the new season of Arrested Development with an Escalator Car.
People should go to Democracy Now. Get there news only from Independent sources not beholden to corporations.
If they could see me now, out on a funship cruise.
I’m starving half to death, my room is filled with poo.
Ha. Nice.