“CNN’s Wolf Blitzer talks to an Oklahoma tornado survivor:
Wolf Blitzer: We’re happy you’re here. You guys did a great job. I guess you got to thank the Lord. Right?
Survivor: Yeah.
Blitzer: Did you thank the Lord for that split-second decision?
Survivor: I — I’m actually an atheist.
Blitzer: You are. All right. But you made the right call.
Survivor: Yeah. We are here. And you know, I don’t blame anybody for thanking the Lord.
Blitzer: Of course not.”
(via T Says)
CNN’s Nancy Grace and Ashleigh Banfield Hold Split-Screen Interview in Same Parking Lot
Check out the “same bus in both shots.”
More: The Atlantic Wire
Yeah, so this just happened.
“CNN has been in the middle of a rehabilitation ever since Jeff Zucker was appointed at the end of last year to run CNN Worldwide. Until now, the defining story in the Zucker era had been a doomed cruise ship that lost power and was towed to port, where its beleaguered passengers dispersed. This week, CNN seemed a lot like that ship.
… Part of the reason that we still want CNN to be great is that at a moment when information and news seem to have done a jailbreak — bursting forth everywhere in all sorts of ways — it would be nice to have a village common where a reliable provider of news held the megaphone. By marketing itself as the most trusted name in news, CNN is and should be held to a higher standard.”
Read: NYTimes
If you love incessant comments and jokes about the physical size of Obama’s budget, tune in to CNN. They seem to be stunned that a country of our size couldn’t fit it all on one page.
“Is this that difficult of a concept for you Piers? I mean, you won Celebrity Apprentice. You’re a really smart guy!”
John Ziegler, maker of the controversial documentary The Framing of Joe Paterno just said that to Piers Morgan on CNN.
He was dead serious and that is hysterical.
“We are joking, it was a tease.”
CNN Public Relations wrote to POLITICO, via Twitter
(via @HuffPostPol)
ABSOLUTELY!
“CNN has learned Hagel’s confirmation as defense secretary is all but certain. - @DanaBashCNN”
“When I told my 7 year old I had decided to leave, she laid on the sofa for an hour crying that she’d never see Anderson Cooper again.”
HA! BREAKING NEWS!
Wait, Mark Zuckerberg is a fictional character?
CNN renames Defense Secretary “Leon Panther”
(via @mmfa)
John Oliver’s piece from last night’s Daily Show looking at how CNN gutted its investigative journalism team all but demanded a “Sorkian” monologue awesomely delivered by The Newsroom’s Jeff Daniels.
“Piers gives his opinions. The show is a lot about him as much as the guests… He’s so different from me.”
“A lot of shows, they make it about the host and the guest becomes a prop to the host and I never liked that. It’s not the quality that counts anymore,” he continued. “It’s how loud did you yell, how vituperative can you be.”
