Wednesday, December 3, 2008

CNN WTF!

Last Wednesday night, I flipped through every news station trying to get information about the horrific events in Mumbai. I finally settled on CNN who seemed to have the most detailed news as well as a reporter outside of the Taj Mahal hotel. Throughout the coverage, I couldn’t help to watch the news ticker at the bottom of the screen. Every few minutes, the ticker would show an item that Spencer and Heidi really didn’t get married. So when did this count as news? There was a major ongoing event with hostages in multiple locations and scores of people killed. That should have been the only item on the ticker. Instead, we need to know that two people on an MTV pseudo-reality show may or may not have got married?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I know what you mean!
You go to watch the news about a major event around the world and they almost always mention celebrities!
why?
people who want to know everything about 'speidi' generally will not watch the news!

Anonymous said...

oh and generally BBC is the news channel which isn't filtered strictly by goverments and therefore the information is generally more factual.
just something i thought i'd pass on =)