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Old 03-20-2014, 09:54 PM
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The only black hole is the one below Lemon's nose from which the most preposterous stuff is spewed.
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CNN, the anti-science network, from 2013: "CNN anchor Deb Feyerick asked Saturday afternoon if an approaching asteroid, which will pass by Earth on February 15, “is an example of, perhaps, global warming?”"
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My favorite was when a reporter said the Air France jet broke up after exceeding the speed of light. You'd have to be completely brain dead to report that.
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In Lemon's piece, he's reading the "black hole" question from a tweet.

In the above examples, is it dain-bread reporters or the severely clueless general public feeding them? i.e. "Today" now has an "Orange Room" where they take comments and questions from the Interweb.

In another CNN piece, the talking head is "telling" Schiavo and Abend what happened and basically only allowing them a "yes" answer, not letting the experts postulate.

I eagerly await the transcendence of the Internet so we may channel (pun intended) Cronkite.
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Maybe I missed it prior, as I do work, but today's update on CNN had one of the airline officials stating there were lithium ion batteries on board.
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Old 03-21-2014, 04:43 AM
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Maybe I missed it prior, as I do work, but today's update on CNN had one of the airline officials stating there were lithium ion batteries on board.
There were probably lots of them... In everyone's smartphone and laptops. Once again, though, fires tend to burn through the plane and take them down in unholy glory within 20 minutes. They tend to not reprogram the FMS and fly along for another 6 hours.
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In Lemon's piece, he's reading the "black hole" question from a tweet.
If this is offered as a pathetic excuse for the media's collective stupidity and self exemption from factual reporting...throw me in ERICK's sociopath bucket.

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Most of the time, anyone willing to kill or harm a large group of people likely has antisocial personality disorderr (sociopath)
The only difference is that I just want to "harm a large group of REPORTERS."
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If this is offered as a pathetic excuse for the media's collective stupidity and self exemption from factual reporting...throw me in ERICK's sociopath bucket.



The only difference is that I just want to "harm a large group of REPORTERS."
Word my brother, word. The media is useless and a waste of time. We need a "just the facts jack" news/media station, and we need it now.
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Originally Posted by Captain Bligh View Post
If this is offered as a pathetic excuse for the media's collective stupidity and self exemption from factual reporting...throw me in ERICK's sociopath bucket.



The only difference is that I just want to "harm a large group of REPORTERS."
We're in agreement - I did not do a good job trying to convey my disgust with today's "journalism". Sources are not vetted, and it's better to be first than be correct.
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