{"id":8251,"date":"2006-08-21T09:10:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T13:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8251.html"},"modified":"2006-08-21T09:10:39","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T13:10:39","slug":"thisis-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/thisis-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"This…is CNN?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not there right now, but this attention-getting graphic was featured prominently on CNN’s website all weekend (via Aravosis<\/a>). I noted<\/a> the other day that the “fear-mongering” label may be overused in a political context, but when it comes to playing on viewers fears, CNN’s recent coverage of a possible terrorist threat clearly qualifies.
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\nIndeed, notice the text. You could be living next door to a blood-thirsty terrorist right now! It doesn’t matter what those nice folks down the street look like; they may be plotting an imminent attack! What can you do about this crisis-in-the-making? You can watch CNN!<\/p>\n

Please. As Aravosis put it<\/a>, “Enough already. Now you are simply stoking people’s fears to gain audience share. That isn’t journalism…. It’s also simply helping the Republicans in their already-declared electoral strategy to, yet again, create fear to help them win the fall elections. And you know that. So why are you doing it?”<\/p>\n

Of course, this “Terror 2.0” ad from the weekend was not just some random special report CNN put together. The network is doing a whole series<\/i> of reports called, “Security Watch: Target: USA.”<\/p>\n

You don’t suppose CNN is trying to exploit the moment of heightened anxiety for some kind of ratings boost, do you?
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\nThe Daily Show certainly makes a compelling case.<\/p>\n

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It’s not there right now, but this attention-getting graphic was featured prominently on CNN’s website all weekend (via Aravosis). I noted the other day that the “fear-mongering” label may be overused in a political context, but when it comes to playing on viewers fears, CNN’s recent coverage of a possible terrorist threat clearly qualifies. Indeed, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}