NLXSK1
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ahhhhhhhh! the depression stage! let me know when you get to "acceptance".
I think he already turned you down. Are you waiting for him to change his mind?
Knowing you were after me might cause depression as well.
Brian Williams
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I think he already turned you down. Are you waiting for him to change his mind?
Knowing you were after me might cause depression as well.
Wavels
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I am quite certain that you are well aware of the difference between someone who is hired to express their OPINION, as opposed to reporting real, actual, hard news.
You are not quite addlepated enough to not be able to understand that Anchorpersons and opinion givers (pundits) are separate and distinctly different jobs.
Which Fox News Anchorperson has behaved like Brian Williams?
see4
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and you know this how?
Don't you know? My erection contains a vast amount of insight.
One only needs to look at it.
sheskunk
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She seems to believe she has some sort of affect on me. You'd think by now she'd realize she is being trolled.
One would come to that conclusion.
UncleBuck
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none of them, each and every single one tells many more blatant lies on a far more frequent basis.
but you don't get upset, because those lies are the delusions that underpin your alternate reality.
NLXSK1
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You have been trolling her for months and she hasnt caught on yet. Even when it was explained to her in painful detail which always ruins the joke...
Breath holding is not recommended here...
sheskunk
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^you trolling me? is that the best you can do? who's trolling who?
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sheskunk
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*Logs on and immediately runs to sheskunk.
You love me.
heckler73
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Meanwhile, back in the caboose:
With the suspension of NBC Nightly News host Brian Williams, Alison Smith, former CBC anchor, and American University Associate Professor of Journalism, Andrew Lih, weigh in on whether the nightly news anchor is still relevant.
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-220-1.2957497/the-decline-of-the-nightly-news-anchor-1.2957520
The audio clip associated with the link is worth listening to. In essence, the "nightly news" super-anchor is a dying concept. I never really noticed it, but it's true. I don't watch "nightly" broadcasts anymore, but I will seek out the "investigative" programs. Otherwise, I filter news all day while conscious.
With the suspension of NBC Nightly News host Brian Williams, Alison Smith, former CBC anchor, and American University Associate Professor of Journalism, Andrew Lih, weigh in on whether the nightly news anchor is still relevant.
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-220-1.2957497/the-decline-of-the-nightly-news-anchor-1.2957520
The audio clip associated with the link is worth listening to. In essence, the "nightly news" super-anchor is a dying concept. I never really noticed it, but it's true. I don't watch "nightly" broadcasts anymore, but I will seek out the "investigative" programs. Otherwise, I filter news all day while conscious.
budlover13
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Watched a piece on CNN last night on Brian Williams and it sounds like
he is quite the storyteller lol. Pretty bad when you have Navy SEALs laughingat the absurdity of your claims.
he is quite the storyteller lol. Pretty bad when you have Navy SEALs laughingat the absurdity of your claims.
ginwilly
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Never gave it much thought but from Cronkite to now it's obvious. We now trust the guy on Comedy Central more than the guy on NBCNews, that's pretty sad.
UncleBuck
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why is that sad? the guy on comedy central has an audience that is better informed by watching him than fox news viewers are.
hell, the people who watch fox news are less informed than people who watch no news at all.
if you want good news, you have to watch NPR.
heckler73
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I wouldn't call it "sad". It's just a part of the flow of change. Once again, technology comes in to usurp tradition. Even in Canada I can see something similar. We have Peter Mansbridge as talking head #1. Then there are less than a handful of others with similar clout. But once they move on, I don't see any replacements, at least not with the same "fanfare" in the same mode (case in point, The Agenda with Steve Paikin on YT). As was noted in the radio spot, the newscast is going the way of the newspaper. I use Google News (with personalized filters) for my main "news flow". This method is more the norm than the exception, and that is undoubtedly the way forward, too. Just like what Arthur C. Clarke predicted in the 70s.
When I want to know what the gov't is up to, I don't need to watch TV. I can go to CPAC and stream the floor live or watch archives. I can go to ParlVu and look at the itinerary and committees in a neatly arranged fashion, with all necessary links to legislation and media archives. The need for that filtered, packaged & "trusted" analysis of global events has completely diminished. This is why "tradition" needs to go to such lengths as outright lying, clinging onto that falling market share.
It's mainly about the adverts and sensation, not analysis of information.
As a related aside, the FOX model has failed in Canada. SUN news just shut up their operations. That says something about the way information is consumed in contrast. Perhaps it is our political environment, dominated historically by Liberals with a multi-decadal influence of Socialist input, which has kept us from leaning too far into the Neo-liberal ideology (although we flirt with Neo-Cons) to even derive entertainment from it. Those that do just watch FOX because it's not about the content anyway; it's the antics involved which brings amusement.
I think George Stigler (progenitor of the Economics of Information) would've found this all quite fascinating if he were alive today.
CLICK HERE for Stigler's paper.
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