Saturday, September 11, 2010

My Quick Letter to CNN

I was watching your coverage of the memorial service at Ground Zero Today. I found the service to be very moving and was listening to the family members read about their families when you guys interrupt with your own commentary. Do you think that we are too stupid to comprehend what is going on? It seems to me that over and over you interrupt what is actually news to comment on what is going on, as if you have to explain it to your audience. Normally it's annoying, today I find it blatantly disrespectful to the families of the 9/11 tragedy and to your viewers. It's so sad that the news today is all commentary and no actual news. Just point the camera, shoot, and let us decide. You did the same thing with the first lady speeches in PA, although Former First Lady Laura Bush was not interrupted, but current First Lady Michelle Obama was. How convenient.

It is very arrogant and narcissistic to think that we should listen to what your talking heads have to say rather than what the actual person who is the news is saying. It is very annoying. Not only did you dedicate your Headline News channel to vain entertainment news, you don't actually cover news at all. You just direct public opinion.

What happened to real Journalism???

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