CNN will not end their Michael Jackson is dead summer mini-series anytime soon. On Monday night who would otherwise know that there were wars being waged in Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention a dozen other news stories that affect the lives of millions, we needed to hear every speculation regarding Jackson’s death being ruled a homicide. In a new low after hours of reporting the same pumped up minutia about the star’s drug use, Anderson Cooper and Erica Hill engaged in catty banter about a teen singer who couldn’t lip-sync to her own song at the Miss Universe pageant. There were the obligatory nymphet jokes which leads to Anderson’s scramble to man his ‘remember, I’m straight switch.’ I digress. Back to the news. Truly pathetic. note to CNN- if you are going to be an entertainment network at least cover Broadway. Otherwise it’s time for a reverse Howard Beal intervention.
Newsies
25 Tuesday Aug 2009
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(2 little things, Heidi Montag is not a teen, and Anderson doesn’t claim to be straight.)
I thought the new MJ information was genuine news, but they should have kept it shorter than they did, and definitely not repeat it again and again in full. Too much, CNN!
caio Anonymous,
Many thanks for your comments. I stand corrected on Heidi. I was listening on CNNradio feed and I miss vital data like that. re: Anderson, the banter he does with Erica seems to cast him in a George & Gracie shtick where he can say all of these personal things about people but teflon himself. Which is ok until they pass inside lines. Too tedious.