I have been watching CNN today and it really has been an interesting experience. When they aren't fearmongering about the Airplanes, long lines at airports, or just stuff we've already heard a thousand times about this terror plot in the UK they keep promoting their
"Theme" day on Monday.
On Monday it seems the Theme is going to be "Target:USA" where they are going to focus an entire day of news coverage on where and how the US might still be vunerable to terrorist attacks and what all the people of the country can do to be vigilant.
Now I don't know about any of you readers out there also watching CNN but for me it's like they are running what amounts to a day long Infomercial about the potential for bad things to happen in the U.S. I can't figure out what purpose it serves other than to try and scare to death everyone watching their news network.
Everytime I turn on CNN these days I feel like I'm being sold something. From the news ticker to the stories they run with the spin that comes with them. The difference between CNN and say CBC news is really amazing.
Two other things I noticed today that really made me step back and wonder what they agenda they were trying to push was. I was watching some this morning noticed they had a piece of "Happy news" on about a Lebanese reporter woman who recovered from losing a leg and part of her arm and how she fought back to health against all odds.
It was a nice story but all throughout the thing she kept talking about the evil Syrian terrorists that tried to bump her off and how because she was a good news caster they wanted to get rid of her. Watching the story it just seemed like a thinly vieled and at the same time very clever way to ease people into seeing Syria as the next great evil enemy because look what they did to this poor woman for instance.
The next weird thing that they were pushing was a show today at 8 eastern 5 pacific called "No Survivors" about a plane crash or at least that's what it looked like from the plane graphic they had the title text on. The didn't give any description beyond that. So I'm kind of curious what they are trying to sell there if it isn't fear.
Like I said I keep thinking that CNN is trying to sell me something or at least get me primed to buy something that someone else like maybe the Administration is going to try and sell me. So it's safe to say that I'm much more vigilant when watching CNN these days.