How clever. How brilliant. How absolutely cheap and dirty this new tool that CNN has figured out how to use like a rock strapped to a stick with a belt of buckskin.
The I-Report.
At first it was a cute and novel way for regular joes and jonies to show CNN just-shot videos of a volcanic mudslide smashing in the side of their house. It was fun to watch. It was a way for CNN to get video no one else would be able to show.
But now?
An I-Report, if you listen to CNN ... is the network's honest attempt to get to the pulse of the America viewer, find out what it's thinking, what's the buzz, what's the hubub!
Unfortunately they peddle it in the collective (that is, an entity which is a quick sampling of hundreds or thousands of said viewers) ... but they use it in the singular. And that, to me, is bullshit.
Just now, I look up and CNN's Wolf Blitzer is sputtering and gasping for air from the Situation Room as usual. He's chatting with Presidential Senior Advisor, Valerie Jarret. Below them, in the graphics ... ahhhh, those pesky fucking little persistant graphics ... is the following phrase:
NEW DEVELOPMENTS! Voter gives Obama failing grade of F+ or at best a D-
Of course what the MTV Generation Half-Watching Viewer sees is: BREAKING NEWS!!! OBAMA FAILS!! F GRADE!!!!
How many so called "voters" are we talking about that led to that "New Developments" Rock-On-A-Stick? One. One guy.
They don't show the guy saying anything about an F or a D grade, you have to take Wolfie's word for that. All this "I-Reporter" says is that he wishes Obama would simplify his message because republicans do it better than Democrats and it seems to serve them well.
Remember the old days when "New Developments" meant a beat reporter just left the courthouse and there was a verdict in the trial of the century? Now "New Developments" means CNN just got a new video shot from a smartphone camera while someone was taking a poop during a break at work.
And now they get to turn that into a graphic that makes it look like someone actually got off their ass and USED THEIR FUCKING JOURNALISM DEGREE!!!!!
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