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CNN Perplexed by Calm U.S. Public
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| March 20, 2006
| Ken Shepherd
Posted on 03/20/2006 12:02:47 PM PST by freemarket_kenshepherd
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To: freemarket_kenshepherd
Dear CNN,
More and more people are learning not to listen to you. It's your own fault. Turn out the lights, the party's over.
CNN = Constant Nincompoop News
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:18:21 PM PST
by
Unkosified
(Patiently waiting for Ted Kennedy's manslaughter trial for 36 years now.)
To: Spruce
Second, every year we are inundated with doom-and-gloom predictions about the next 'killer' epidemic which never happens.Yep. Remember Swine Flu?
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:19:16 PM PST
by
cardinal4
(David Gregory-the John Kerry of the Media Elite)
To: freemarket_kenshepherd
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:25:58 PM PST
by
SkyPilot
To: Obadiah
Considering that I am already supposed to be dead from SARS 4 years ago, I think I'll go with number 2.
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:26:35 PM PST
by
MNlurker
To: freemarket_kenshepherd
Perhaps we're just waiting until we hear the news from a reliable source.
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:27:06 PM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(No animals were harmed during the creation of this post.)
To: freemarket_kenshepherd
Not one danged thing I can do about it so am not going to waste my time worrying.
BTW
You know you have bird flu when you get headaches, sniffles and:
Get a sudden uncontrollable urge to go out and poop on someone's windshield.
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:29:31 PM PST
by
76834
(There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.)
To: freemarket_kenshepherd
Dear CNN,
There's a fable named "The Boy Who Cried Wolf". Find it. Read it. Try to comprehend it.
Sincerely,
Most Americans
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:30:11 PM PST
by
TChris
("Wake up, America. This is serious." - Ben Stein)
To: freemarket_kenshepherd
Weve fanned the flames of fear about this stuff, said CNNs Jack Cafferty on March 18. He was talking about bird flu, and his admission just confirmed the Free Market Projects ongoing analysis of media coverage.
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Someone tell these genius types at MSM that they have lied so long no one will listen to their opinion.
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:31:05 PM PST
by
CHICAGOFARMER
(12 TH GENERATION PATROIT.)
To: Howlin
"Katrina was the tipping point, IMO. Now, nobody would believe them if they told us missles had been launched from offshore headed right for our houses."
My stomach hurts from laughing at your comment! I am picturing Little Lord Anderson making a mess in his pantaloons!
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:32:48 PM PST
by
bonfire
To: freemarket_kenshepherd
Weve fanned the flames of fear about this stuff, said CNNs Jack Cafferty on March 18.Jack Cafferty's biggest worry has always been "the 86-proof flu". Who would listen to this old sot...especially on the day after St. Patrick's Day?!
To: freemarket_kenshepherd
"Weve fanned the flames of fear about this stuff,
What admission! He'll regret making this statement.
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:41:20 PM PST
by
peacebaby
("What! Me worry?" Alfred E. Newman)
To: TXBSAFH
"Something has to kill you.""We're probably all going to die of something." - Jocelyn Elders
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:50:28 PM PST
by
Designer
(Just a nit-pick'n and chagrin'n)
To: freemarket_kenshepherd
Weve fanned the flames of fear about this stuff, said CNNs Jack Cafferty"Now it seems we aren't even good at doing that."
Time to go buy that chicken farm, Jack.
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:54:36 PM PST
by
Designer
(Just a nit-pick'n and chagrin'n)
To: freemarket_kenshepherd
Im amazed that Americans at this point are really fairly unconcerned about bird flu and mad cow disease, the Bryn Mawr alumna confessed,
To: Obadiah
Unfortunately, CNN is still the most watched network.
Here's February's total audience numbers:
CNN: 58,063,000
FNC: 51,755,000
MSNBC: 51,557,000
Source - http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/02/28/cnn-touts-february-ratings-successes/#more-1790
Fox records higher hourly ratings because the average Fox viewer watches 4 times as long as the average CNN viewer, but CNN still beats Fox in total number of Americans tuning in over the course of the day.
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posted on
03/20/2006 1:14:40 PM PST
by
jcs2
To: freemarket_kenshepherd
CNN would rather report mass hysteria than calm, orderly preparation for a threat that may never amount to anything.
Except the expenditure of billions of dollars that could be better used elsewhere.
Of course, part of the calmness of the population could be because Americans once again have signed off on the government protection racket, forgetting Katrina and other government promises that cannot materialize.
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posted on
03/20/2006 1:16:40 PM PST
by
o_zarkman44
(ELECT SOME WORKERS AND REMOVE THE JERKERS!!)
To: freemarket_kenshepherd
Weve fanned the flames of fear about this stuff, said CNNs Jack Cafferty on March 18."
What, I thought it was BUSH who was using fear as an excuse to destroy our civil liberties, wage perpetual war, shred the Constitution, and turn the USA into a fundamentalist Christian theocracy? The public probably isn't real worried about the bird flu epidemic because - to my knowledge - no one in the USA has died from it yet. But in the nine-ten months since I first started hearing about this flu, 30,000 Americans have died in car accidents.
To: jcs2
Why are you quoting and linking to a CNN press release? I smell a troll.
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posted on
03/20/2006 1:29:02 PM PST
by
jimbo123
To: jcs2
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posted on
03/20/2006 1:30:12 PM PST
by
jimbo123
To: austinaero
Could it be that no one watches CNN anymore? Not if you're CNN. LOL
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posted on
03/20/2006 1:30:29 PM PST
by
Fruitbat
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