From infomercials to infotainment:
By on Jan 18th, 2006 at 4:26 pm
From infomercials to infotainment:
Former Rep. J.C. Watts (R-OK) leaves a promising career in TV infomercials to join CNN.
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Did FAUX “news” recently buy CNN? Sure seems like it.
January 18th, 2006 at 4:30 pmcan anyone tell the differnce between fox news and cnn?
January 18th, 2006 at 4:34 pmmaybe JC can explain how the house is not run like a plantation.
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January 18th, 2006 at 4:36 pmcan anyone tell the differnce between fox news and cnn?
Comment by thot’s — January 18, 2006 @ 4:34 pm
Different channels…
January 18th, 2006 at 4:37 pmYea but who’s the Massa and who’s the slave?
I’d put JC in the Masters roll more than anything. I don’t like his politics, but I have more respect for him than the other jerk-off fox, I mean CNN hired.
January 18th, 2006 at 4:38 pmI couldn’t sleep one night about a week ago and happened across the infomercial on how to get $$$ from Uncle Sam. Isn’t that just a tad bit hypocritical Mr. Watts?
January 18th, 2006 at 4:41 pmGlenn Beck, and now this guy. CNN is the new Faux.
January 18th, 2006 at 4:47 pmI wish we could take both channels off of our basic cable.
January 18th, 2006 at 4:50 pmIt’s sad that our money goes to put their crap on the air.
True Blue, I use the V-chip on the TV to block them out. Now, if only I could block Rita Cosby…that VOICE. Arrrghh!
January 18th, 2006 at 4:55 pmWhat is in this mans closet that he won’t run for public office? makes ya wonder. Probably real estate. Notice how no one has egged him on to run for anything.You’d thinkTHE Trophy Black Conservative would be destined for GOP greatness. I guess he is smart enough to get out from under the thumb of accountability when he could. Also to answer #2 thot’s question MAKE UP. Fox is sprayed on like truck liner.
January 18th, 2006 at 4:58 pmZookeeper,
January 18th, 2006 at 5:00 pmI know!!! I make fun of her everytime I hear her.
The link is a call to action link Media Matters put up yesterday to urge CNN from the dark side.
Give it a click to voice your concerns.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200601170010
Its about time. It will take years, but sometime in the future, there may possibly be a balance between liberal and conservative media outlets. This is just simple economics. With most of the channels spouting the same stupid liberal drivel, Fox is eating everyone’s lunch. CNN finally figured this out and is making a move in the “right” direction.
January 18th, 2006 at 5:03 pmcan anyone tell the differnce between fox news and cnn?
Fewer pasty, paunchy, middle aged, white, male faces at CNN. Though, I suspect that may change soon.
January 18th, 2006 at 5:07 pmWith most of the channels spouting the same stupid liberal drivel, Fox is eating everyone’s lunch.
Much like a dog eats it own vomit. There is no liberal media. You have bought into the big lie. Congratulations. Barnum was right, and you prove it.
January 18th, 2006 at 5:10 pmTrue Blue, I use the V-chip on the TV to block them out. Now, if only I could block Rita Cosby…that VOICE. Arrrghh!
Comment by Zookeeper — January 18, 2006 @ 4:55 pm
LOL. I know what you mean. Jane and I can’t get to the remote fast enough when Keith Olbermann is over. Her interview with Tom DeLay (in which she asked him about every ten seconds about how “sad” he felt – or didn’t, because he said he felt great) had to be one of the worst TV interviews I’ve ever seen.
I don’t understand why CNN thinks they need to lower themselves to FNC’s level. Fox News Channel designs itself to appeal to people who aren’t all that bright. That’s why everything is a “Fox News Alert” even when nothing of importance or significance is happening.
January 18th, 2006 at 5:22 pmWhat is going on? CNN is modeling itself after Fox. It looks like they are preparing themselves to have their army at the ready to deflect all charges by the Democrats in the coming months pre-election. Their in-house spinners will be able to appear before camera in a minute’s notice.
January 18th, 2006 at 5:28 pmWho is hiring a Democrat? Anyone?
Doesn’t it seem, especially with Deborah Howell and all that’s going on at The WaPo, regarding bloggers ,that the current trend is to deal with parallel deliveries customized to fit the user. Older folks raised on 3 networks need TV and the younger I-Poders let’s call em need chat style blogs. TV= Conservative, with visual entertainment and the Internet with keyboard options for the left leaning participants. Newsprint, esoteric and published for tradition. And then there is Jon Stewart…
January 18th, 2006 at 5:30 pm“A Black man voting for the Republicans, is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders” – J.C. Watts’ Dad
January 18th, 2006 at 5:30 pm“A Black man voting for the Republicans, is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders†– J.C. Watts’ Dad
Comment by AkaDad — January 18, 2006 @ 5:30 pm
“Black man” and “Any woman” and “Latinos” and “Asians” and “Non-religious” and “Gays” and “Poor” and “Middle Class” and “Workers” and “Environmentalists” and “Native Americans”…
January 18th, 2006 at 5:44 pmThat’s what CNN needs, more Falafel jokes. Maybe they can call their co-anchor, uh, competitor O’Liely and ask for some pointers.
January 18th, 2006 at 5:45 pmFly-man, why such hate for JC? What do you have against black conservatives? Why do you care?
Marie – you’re witnessing something we call free enterprise and competition. Of course CNN wants to be like Fox – they want ratings. Liberals are a dime a dozen on tv – no one is watching you. The right is just beginning what is likely to be a dominant hold on media. Your days are over. But, you always have ThinkProgress.
January 18th, 2006 at 6:08 pmwhen the RATING drop, because of bloggs, they get DESPERATE and will lower themselves to anything. Nice work TIME/WARNER but don’t look at the REAL reason your losing viewers day by day with your RIGHT slant to every story and NO REPORTING is the same as you are CENCERED NEWS NETWORK.
January 18th, 2006 at 6:16 pm#22 – less kool-aid, more reality please. Boycott Time Warner – please. Conservatives would love you for it.
January 18th, 2006 at 6:20 pmCNN is Fox News Channel. With people like Nancy Grace, Daryn Kagan, Wolf Blitzer, Glenn Beck and now a slave to the Republican massas, CNN is dead.
January 18th, 2006 at 6:26 pm#21 Fishman
January 18th, 2006 at 6:29 pmI fully understand free enterprise; I don’t need a patronizing comment.
I believe, however, that the public media has an obligation to serve the public (public airwaves, you know) and the public is not one political party — although a stranger to this country would certainly think so. Corporate ownership is one thing, corporate consolidation geared toward one idea is not exactly free enterprise — it is more like oligarchy.
Mr. Tetra King, i do not have a hate issue with Mr. J.C. Watts. my suspicion revolves around his, which I see as premature, departure from public office. Now about his credentials as a black conservative, I don’t have anything against any color conservative, I just feel that the conservatives latch on to any actual conservative they can to build a faux representation of their cause. Can you say Shadegg? Is CNN going to promote him as Liberal Commentator JC WATTS? Probably not. So my point would be if he is such a unique individual coming form the sausage factory why didn’t he stay there? My reason to care is to constanly challenge what the Conservative movement decides what a conservative is, especially one who has been elected. Real life plays out by being elected not just pontificating vacumesque agendas that have very little real costs. Is Bush a conservative?
January 18th, 2006 at 6:39 pm#11 – Thanks for the link, True Blue. The email is on it’s way.
#15 – Wayne, it’s a contest in our house to get to the remote after Keith and before Rita Cosby’s voice starts. My youngest son does a dead-on imitation, including the head bob, that would having you rolling on the floor.
January 18th, 2006 at 6:49 pmI have nothing against Rita Crosby, its just her voice is like scratching a chalkboard,with your fingernails, while hearing Rosanne Barr sing the National Anthem.
January 18th, 2006 at 6:53 pmAlito Said Attorneys General Can’t Be Sued for Illegal Wiretaps
Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) — Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito wrote in a 1984 memo that U.S. attorneys general should be immune from being sued for ordering illegal wiretaps.
Even so, Alito, then a Justice Department lawyer, recommended against pressing the claim in a case involving 1970s wiretaps ordered by former Attorney General John Mitchell to investigate a suspected plot to kidnap National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and blow up utility tunnels in Washington.
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“I do not question that the attorney general should have this immunity, but for tactical reasons I would not raise the issue here,” Alito wrote in the June 12, 1984, memo to then-U.S. Solicitor General Rex Lee. “I start from the premise that absolute immunity arguments are difficult to advance successfully.”
Instead, Alito, then an assistant to the solicitor general, recommended the government ask the Supreme Court to allow the Justice Department to appeal a lower court’s ruling that Mitchell could be sued over the wiretapping.
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January 18th, 2006 at 10:29 pmBruin Alumni Association Targets ‘Radical’ Faculty
By Malcolm Maclachlan
E-mail article
(published January 17th, 2006)
An organization calling itself the “Bruin Alumni Association” that has no official affiliation with the University of California has published an online list of UCLA professors it deems “radical.” The Association also posted an online offer to pay students for evidence proving that instructors have been espousing left-wing views in class, in violation of University of California rules.
The Association lists an advisory board of UCLA alumni that includes Senator and current Congressional candidate Bill Morrow, R-San Diego, former Congressman Jim Rogan, and former California Republican Party head Shawn Steel. The group’s founder is Andrew Jones, a 2003 UCLA graduate who has worked as a research assistant to David Horowitz, the right-wing commentator closely identified with criticizing universities for being too liberal.
The Web site, http://www.uclaprofs.com, lists 31 current and former professors in disciplines such as African-American studies, Chicano studies, education, history and political science. These names are linked to detailed profiles of professors and their activities. There is also a ratings system in which faculty are rated from one to five “black power” fists to indicate how radical they are.
The site, which states that it was launched Jan. 7, also includes a button that reads, “UCLA Students: Help UCLAprofs and get paid!” This invitation leads to a page that states:
“Do you have a professor who just can’t stop talking about President Bush, about the war in Iraq, about the Republican Party, or any other ideological issue that has nothing to do with the class subject matter? It doesn’t matter whether this is a past class, or your class for this coming winter quarter. If you help UCLAProfs.com expose the professor, we’ll pay you for your work. Full, detailed lecture notes, all professor-distributed materials, and full tape recordings of every class session, for one class: $100.”
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Welcome to UCLAProfs.com, a project of the Bruin Alumni Association. As our motto attests, UCLAProfs.com is a long-term project dedicated to exposing UCLA’s most radical professors. The extensively researched profiles you will find here are proof of an increasingly radical faculty. As a large number of the profiles also demonstrate, these professors are actively proselytizing their extreme views in the classroom, whether or not the commentary is relevant to the class topic.
The result for students is nothing less than a debased education. Douglas Kellner rages about a “Bush Reich,†the vicious anti-Semitic troika of Gabriel Piterberg, Saree Makdisi, and Sondra Hale peddle hatred of Israel and Zionism, while Peter McLaren teaches the next generation of educators how to politicize their own classrooms … (read more)
January 19th, 2006 at 12:20 amShame about CNN going conservative. Probably stupid, too. Do they really think there’s enough wingnuts to go around? Do they really think the wingnut movement hasn’t peaked? For our sakes, I sure hope they’re wrong.
January 19th, 2006 at 8:01 amWell, atleast we still have Comedy Central… which, if you think about it is where news and politics really belong these days…
No worries about the cons taking over humor – they have none.
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January 19th, 2006 at 9:22 amEverytime I saw news on JC Watts when he was in Congress, he was held up as the token only black Republican Member of Congress, from Oklahoma, no less.
I saw those infomercials with JC Watts. They were pretty slimy, joining the ranks of other late night slimy informercials, which bring the likes of Trudeau, our religious Taliban, Sheets, Girls Gone Wild, Miss Cleo, Lesko, so basically porn, religion, congames.
Here’s a thought, what if we don’t watch Fox or CNN. There are still other options. Why not support them. Fox, CNN: Just Don’t Watch!
It is just like Walmart, if you don’t like it, just don’t shop there.
Duh!
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