jeff catalina said:
Disappointing.
Last night it was Jeffrey Toobin, standing atop a mountain of self-righteous indignation, tossing verbal firebombs into a narrative ignited by lies, half-truths and hysteria.
Tonight it's Erin Burnett, fawning over the daughter of Eric Garner as if he was a national hero, instead of a man arrested almost three dozen times. A man who when asked repeatedly to leave, by the owner of the store where he was illegally selling cigarettes, chose to stay. A man who when asked by police to do the same, chose to stay and argue with same. A man who resisted arrest. A man who was clearly capable of breaking in half any one of the police on the scene. A man who, if he had simply not been breaking the law that morning -- or even if he had taken one of the numerous chances he had been given by the storeowner and police -- would likely still be alive today.
It's been a while for me, here, for a variety of reasons. This post is as much inspired by my sudden, intense distaste for CNN as it is by Ron Oehlert's belief that posting in a politics forum on an astronomy website needs some kind of justification other than whimsy. It doesn't, Ron, by the way.
Would a producer get fired for making a good news program? All that money floating around and nobody can make a good daily news show?
The interviewers always ask, "How did that make you feel?"
