People, Personas, and Politics 33 – Bad News Habits
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): People, Personas, and Politics
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/04/21
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Rick Rosner: Also! CNN learned a bunch of horrible new tricks during the election. They haven’t given them up. The Countdown Clock.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Yes [Laughing].
RR: During an election, there are a bunch of event start to count down to. Certain number of days and hours to Super Tuesday primaries. Days and hours to debates. Now, CNN has a frickin’ clock up there all of the time. days and houses until Van Jones has a show or a town hall. People like or are drawn to the clock. It is a terrible habit. There are super shitty news and opinion panels like those with the loathsome Jeffrey Lord.
Yesterday, he said that Donald Trump is the Martin Luther King of healthcare coverage because Donald Trump will somehow coerce the nation into acting on healthcare in the way Martin Luther King coerced the nation into acting on civil rights. That guy is just a jackass. He gets paid who knows how much to be a professional jackass on CNN.
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