A red moon after all?

(Gene Seibel) wrote in message . com...
10 people dying in an accident, plus thousands scared on the ferry not
know what happened, jumped into water, or have their legs broken by
the accident (or watch the bad bloody scene), and then the boats gotta
suspended so today 60,000 people gotta find some other way to go for
work, and tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow......

A local story.

So is your Kansas accident example. :P

But admit it. you said CNN serves NY and LA, and NY local news is
gonna be bigger then Chinese astronaut going home.

Fine. You wanna watch television, then you know CNN, or any other TV
media, wanna have some video to show. For the ferry accident, you got
video. For Chinese astronaut going home, you only have a short video
released by Beijing authority. Which video do you wanna show before
you **** off the audience make them bored? You tell me.

If they choose their stories by what video they have, they are
entertainment, not news.

If a news don't have an associate video, probably it's gonna be a
sentence rolling from right to left in the bottom of the screen.

A local story.

So is your Kansas accident example. :P

True. And I didn't expect or want CNN to cover it.

But admit it. you said CNN serves NY and LA, and NY local news is
gonna be bigger then Chinese astronaut going home.

True. But if CNN wants to just serve NY, it shouldn't be on cable
systems all across the country. Did you know that Ted Turner filed a
suit a few years ago to overturn the laws that required cable systems
to carry local stations? Said it was unfair that cable systems carried
local stations rather than his 6 channels. If CNN thinks they have to
be on cable everywhere, it seems they should carry news that is of
interest to all of us.

I've seen lots of interesting stories without video. At least
interview an expert or something. Not being able to cover a story
without video shows a lack of creativity.
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Gene Seibel
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Because I fly, I envy no one.

(Gene Seibel) wrote in message . com...
A local story.

So is your Kansas accident example. :P

True. And I didn't expect or want CNN to cover it.

Then why the fuss about CNN not putting Chinese astronaut going home
as top news?

But admit it. you said CNN serves NY and LA, and NY local news is
gonna be bigger then Chinese astronaut going home.

True. But if CNN wants to just serve NY, it shouldn't be on cable
systems all across the country. Did you know that Ted Turner filed a
suit a few years ago to overturn the laws that required cable systems
to carry local stations? Said it was unfair that cable systems carried
local stations rather than his 6 channels. If CNN thinks they have to
be on cable everywhere, it seems they should carry news that is of
interest to all of us.

Heck, ask your local cable provider to drop CNN. Asking CNN not to go
on cable system all across the country is barking the wron tree.

I've seen lots of interesting stories without video. At least
interview an expert or something. Not being able to cover a story
without video shows a lack of creativity.

Nap. If you don't think video is that important in television CNN, you
should listen to a radio station or go to http://www.cnn.com/ next
time CNN sends you breaking news. When you receive breaking news by
email, you are online and you can go to cnn.com already. That's just
one clikc for the brower. Turn on your television is .....

(Gene Seibel) wrote in message . com...
CNN serves NY and LA, not the US. A couple years ago we had a 24 car
pileup outside Kansas City that killed 10 and injured many more.
Didn't get a fraction of the coverage the ferry got. CNN considers 10
people dying in NY a much more important story than 10 dying in the
Midwest.

Well... CNN and other 'international' mass media (whether USoA based
or not) serves its 'master', and who is their 'master'? Definely not
the USoA, not NY, not LA. Since while they look sometimes sided with
these, at others, they seems to defame these.

Anyway. For an overblown proportion, consider this, it was said that
around eight workers died when they were working on the roof of
Building 112. that it was said to hold the Russian Space Shuttle Buran
(though strangely, I never saw a photo of a wrecked Buran). Now
compare it to Columbia's disappearance with seven people missing.

The Buran news is treated like a local news going international. The
Columbia news is treated as if the world has shattered apart.

Of course, people died everyday, why is that only certain deaths are
treated as special?

"Dirk Bruere at Neopax" wrote in message
...

And for real amusement consider the fact that Plutonium smuggling no
longer
even makes it to the national news.

Unless it's organised via stern voicean interweb/voice.