A former US president had his ear sliced open by a 5.56mm bullet, two bystanders were wounded and a third was killed. CNN’s first headline read:“Secret Service rushes Trump off stage after he falls at rally.”
“drop down.” Whatever?
If you want to attract a primarily American audience, you might want to hone your network’s use of local languages.
As a first-time correspondent for CNN in the 1980s, I thought the nightmare of the recent collapse of the network I helped build was finally over when former NBC reporter and disruptor of professional news programming, Jeff “Mother” Zucker, was fired. Well…for MeToo reasons. (Who else would have a rapport with a garden gnome?)
and, The Sacrificial Goat by Chris Licht He resorted to the ploy of firing anchors Chris “Fredo” Cuomo, Don the Lemon and Brian “Brownie” Stelter in hopes of improving the quality of the network.
Unfortunately, good deeds go unpunished, and the staff at Licht AtlanticThe staff did it with more whining than a bunch of Karens at a pity party.
The puppet master behind it all, including Licht’s hiring and firing, is Bigfoot, a non-newsman at Warner Bros. Discovery. David Zaslav.
So, as CNN continues to descend toward earth in an ever-worsening death spiral, has Zaslav sought out a Ted Turner clone to revive the once-proud network? Has he sought the advice of CNN’s last founding producer, Ted Kavanaugh? No.
Zaslav instead hired someone from the BBC – you know, the BBC. Sir Mark John Thompsonlater in the New York Times. And that was the best his pathetic network could do. “Trump was injured. “Incident at the Gathering”
Hey Markie, baby! You’re amazing! Does your name and reputation mean anything to you? Did you give the entire CNN staff Xanax?
The most cheerful politician since Theodore Roosevelt nearly had his skull vaporized by a 20-year-old madman’s supersonic bullet, and all you people can do is call it an “incident”?
But that’s not all. What about this caption?What happened at the Trump rally that left him injured was captured on video.”
On what planet does such a lowbrow sales pitch come up? It’s pitched with as much enthusiasm as telling the “servants” when to pour the tea before serving the crumpets. Perhaps networks should rethink how they use jargon if they want to capture the attention of a primarily American audience.
lastly, Jamie Gangelfollowing responses from NBC News and CNN. Women of the Church He was the host of Saturday Night Live who unilaterally decided that a presidential candidate facing an assassin’s bullet should not raise his fist in the direction of his attacker and yell, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
Sir Markey, that American It’s the spirit, sir.
So tell the King, and tell America I’m not here to get revenge on Meghan Markle.
