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Showing posts with label cnn. Show all posts

Friday, February 8, 2008

Angelina Jolie Talks To CNN From Baghdad



United Nations goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie is in Iraq on a humanitarian mission and met with officials to ask for help for the more than two million people displaced by the war. Of those two million people, reportedly 58 percent are under 12 years old.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Jon Stewart Rants About Super Tuesday's Television Coverage-What's With The Rotating 3D Pie Charts And All The Endless Graphics?





The high tech stuff is fine but in my opinion, CNN and the network channels covering the primaries are just overdoing it! Don't get me wrong. I understand that all that "expert" analysis and all the gadgetry and space-age stuff is intended to offer a more thorough dissection of the whole process. But in trying to explain what's going on to the viewers, the so-called experts and pundits sometimes crank out pure, unadulterated jibberish. Overdone hogwash. Numbers and estimates only understood by some secret society of political pundits.And all the techno stuff--flying 3-D pie charts, color-coded graphics, multi-screen set-ups --that looks like the holo deck of the Enterprise. Its the 21st century and I am aware of that most days. But I still think they are going overboard. To me, there is definitely beauty in simplicity. Simplicity dammit!



Monday, February 4, 2008

Jon Stewart Makes Fun of CNN's Situation Room and its Display of Spongebob While Presenting Election News

Spongebob Square Pants was displayed on one of the six screens used by CNN's Situation Room while the news that John Edwards was dropping out of the race for President was being announced. Steward referred to the multi-screen format as "stupid" and "a hilarious f*ck-up that never gets old to watch."




Story from the Huffington Post-Feb 1, 2008

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Hillary and Barack Duke It Out In South Carolina As John (Edwards) Complains in CNN Debate

Jan. 21 - Democratic presidential hopefuls battle it out in a CNN debate.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama trade jabs as John Edwards criticizes them for wasting the voters' time