Last night I tuned in to CNN 11 times at random and found that every time that network was covering what President Trump had to say about the events in Charlottesville, Virginia. It seemed excessive to me, and I posted about it.
Today brought some really important news stories from Spain. First there was a major and horrible terror attack in Barcelona that killed many people and wounded more. Then we learned that there had been a bomb which exploded last night in another town near Barcelona in what turned out to be a terrorist bomb factory. Fortunately, that blast only killed terrorists (or so it seems at this point.) Next there was a second terror attack in a city outside of Barcelona that was thwarted by police with four terrorists killed. ISIS claimed authorship of this spate of terror attacks. It was a major attack by ISIS in Western Europe.
Because of this major news about the ISIS attacks in Spain, I decided to pop in at random on CNN again this evening. Between 7 and 10:15 pm, I tuned into CNN twelve times at random. On eleven of those times, the CNN show of the moment was discussing only one aspect or another of what the President had to say about Charlottesville or something connected to it. (One time, CNN was discussing the likelihood of the impeachment of the President and I am counting that among the eleven.) One time, when I tuned in, the CNN panel was discussing Charlottesville, but they broke into that discussion for a special report that there had been a second terror attack thwarted with four terrorists killed by police. The special report lasted about 90 seconds and then CNN returned to the discussion of what President Trump had to say about Charlottesville.
I have to say that I was amazed. There was a major terror attack in Spain and it was being ignored. How could this be? I checked MSNBC to see how they were handling it. I only tuned in twice, but each time they were covering events in Spain. There was also major coverage of the attacks in Spain on Fox News. How could CNN just ignore a story like that for repetitive coverage of an old story.
It reminded me of when that Malaysian airliner was lost and CNN had something like two weeks straight of non-stop coverage even though there was nothing new to say about it. They seem to have lost all perspective about what is important at CNN.
Today brought some really important news stories from Spain. First there was a major and horrible terror attack in Barcelona that killed many people and wounded more. Then we learned that there had been a bomb which exploded last night in another town near Barcelona in what turned out to be a terrorist bomb factory. Fortunately, that blast only killed terrorists (or so it seems at this point.) Next there was a second terror attack in a city outside of Barcelona that was thwarted by police with four terrorists killed. ISIS claimed authorship of this spate of terror attacks. It was a major attack by ISIS in Western Europe.
Because of this major news about the ISIS attacks in Spain, I decided to pop in at random on CNN again this evening. Between 7 and 10:15 pm, I tuned into CNN twelve times at random. On eleven of those times, the CNN show of the moment was discussing only one aspect or another of what the President had to say about Charlottesville or something connected to it. (One time, CNN was discussing the likelihood of the impeachment of the President and I am counting that among the eleven.) One time, when I tuned in, the CNN panel was discussing Charlottesville, but they broke into that discussion for a special report that there had been a second terror attack thwarted with four terrorists killed by police. The special report lasted about 90 seconds and then CNN returned to the discussion of what President Trump had to say about Charlottesville.
I have to say that I was amazed. There was a major terror attack in Spain and it was being ignored. How could this be? I checked MSNBC to see how they were handling it. I only tuned in twice, but each time they were covering events in Spain. There was also major coverage of the attacks in Spain on Fox News. How could CNN just ignore a story like that for repetitive coverage of an old story.
It reminded me of when that Malaysian airliner was lost and CNN had something like two weeks straight of non-stop coverage even though there was nothing new to say about it. They seem to have lost all perspective about what is important at CNN.
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