Dumbest Breathless News Coverage Ever

hgc said:
Skank? That's pretty harsh. Based on what?
Underage drinking? Spare me the sanctimony. Any 20 year old who can get away with it should hit the clubs and have a good time - especially if you're not driving. You're only young once.

As for role model, that's a crock. The constituency of Miss USA consists of the miniscule community of rising beauty queens, already must worse traumatized by the bizarreness of what they're engaged in than the bad news of one of their own in trouble could wrought. The rest of the constituency are dirty old men ogling hot young flesh, and they're more than pleased by this development. Oh, there's also the blue hairs - and a little indignation is always good for them.

All in all, Tara Conner is doing great in her job. She even gave her boss Trump almost a whole week of pointless, vapid saturation media coverage, and there's nothing he loves more.
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Too true.

You know, I can't help but think that her career might have been better off if she had been fired. It would have added a bit of intrigue to an otherwise boring Miss USA. Look at the career of Vanessa Williams after she was stripped of her Miss America title. Instead, this Jenna Jameson knock-off was reduced to fake crying like a baby at a press conference and is going into rehab that she doesn't think she needs.

We won't hear about her again until the next pageant, and I predict that that will be the last time unless she does work the Jenna Jameson angle. If she does, I'm sure that we can count on MdC to let us all know. ;)

But Trump gets coverage for himself and the pageant. He's happy.
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
But, to be honest, I'm not sure those 3 guys deserve the non-stop coverage they've been getting either.
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When I saw the title of this thread, I thought it was about the 3 idiots who decided to climb Mt. Hood in December.




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eta: the Chicago news all day has been about Tank Johnson and the upcoming (actually already happened) Bears press conference...
 
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WildCat said:
When I saw the title of this thread, I thought it was about the 3 idiots who decided to climb Mt. Hood in December.
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Well, that's a good "human interest" story, especially when combined with the three wives sitting there, with one smiling trying to keep up a good face with tears streaming out of her eyes. It tugged your heartstrings, and the CNN producers and directors kept thinking "ka-CHING!"

See also Diane Sawyer, et al., as they convince this or that person to burst into tears. CHA-CHING! You earned your pay Diane!
 
Charlie Monoxide said:
Being a hard-core news addict, I never lose sight of the fact that pretty well everything on TV is putting stuff on between commercials ....
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It has reached the point, in some cases, where the commercials do take up more time than the actual program.
 
webfusion said:
It has reached the point, in some cases, where the commercials do take up more time than the actual program.
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It has reached the point, in some cases, where the commercials are more informative than the actual program.
 
webfusion said:
It has reached the point, in some cases, where the commercials do take up more time than the actual program.
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It's not a simple program/commercial dichotomy either. How does one account for program time that also includes on screen advertising for upcoming programs? These are becoming increasingly animated, lengthy and overall intrusive. I think this should constitute a new category of time accounting: a) programming, b) advertising and c) overlap. Oh, one more category: d) overlap on opening/closing credits. If you add up b, c and d, you get a huge proportion for advertising.
 
I'm old enough to remember sitting at the dinner table with my parents and brother, with the Nightly News on the spare TV by the dinner table, and it having enough serious and intelligent makeup that it started many good conversations and helped me in no small way get a bit smarter about the nation and the world.

But now...I cannot remember the last time I watched either the local or national news. Stuff and commericals and 'faces'.

Goodnight, Chet

Goodnight, David, and goodnight for decent news coverage.

(you'll be showing your age if you immediately recognized the above).
 
Hutch said:
I'm old enough to remember sitting at the dinner table with my parents and brother, with the Nightly News on the spare TV by the dinner table, and it having enough serious and intelligent makeup that it started many good conversations and helped me in no small way get a bit smarter about the nation and the world.

But now...I cannot remember the last time I watched either the local or national news. Stuff and commericals and 'faces'.

Goodnight, Chet

Goodnight, David, and goodnight for decent news coverage.

(you'll be showing your age if you immediately recognized the above).
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I grew up with the Vietnam war on the TV during dinner. We actually saw images of war and suffering on a nightly basis, because that's what was happening on a daily basis that had such an important impact on us. Where are those images today? Censored by the embedding process and by antics such as Bush not allowing the flag-draped coffins of our dead to be seen by the nation.
 
hgc said:
From wence your name, Hotspur. Would it be a certain 3 masted sloop operating in the blockade of Brest?
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Nope, Harry Percy was one of the early skeptics---from the Bard himself.

Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man.
But will they come when you do call for them

Henry IV Part I (Act 3, Sc 1)
 
But, to be honest, I'm not sure those 3 guys deserve the non-stop coverage they've been getting either.
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Nope, I don't think so either. With all consideration to them and their families, people go missing all the time for a variety of reasons. Like many things, this is on the news because it is dramatic and thus entertaining (i.e. it will get people to watch). It certainly is relevant news in the city/town where the men are from. But news of national importance? Not a chance.
 
Well, the rescue effort has been officially cancelled. It is now a recovery mission.

I suspect that we'll be hearing less about it now until they find the bodies.

Whatever else can be said, I still feel bad for them and their families (and the rescuers).
 
Just saw Trump slamming Rosie for slamming him about this. That was some good stuff. He's definitely funnier than she is. "Yeah, I'll probably sue her -- just because it'll be fun, and I'd like to take some money out of those fat-ass pockets."
 
I despair for the future of humanity.

(Who the hell is this Miss America? What does Donald Trump (Yep, I've heard of him) have to do with it? Why would anyone care, one way or the other?)
 
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