Love that headline of Mike Lupica’s New York Daily News column today, August 17. Such sentiment should have been echoed in the TV news broadcasts purporting to report on the town hall meetings when and where rabid vocalizers seemed more interested in trash talking than health care changes.
CNN Needs to Do Better Profiling of Blithering Birthers & Their Naysaying Cousins
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009I was watching CNN’s broadcast last night, August 12, of the town hall meetings turned into ranting cages for “those people” barking about topics and subjects that have nothing to do with health care. A smart strategy by organizers, brain trusts – clearly extreme right – who came up with this plan to use the news media for their agenda.
Smart strategy – I have to say that one more time.
CNN, however, needs to do a better job of telling its viewers who these people are, to put things into context.
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