Let's take a look at the top three headlines from a couple news sources.
The BBC leads with:
- US extends troops' tour of duty
- China PM to address Japan MPs
- BBC's day of action for reporter (the reporter in question is Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped last month in Gaza
al Jazeera has:
- Explosions rock Algiers
- China urges Japan to remember past
- US soldiers to stay longer in Iraq
CNN attempts to emulate its lessers with:
- MSNBC drops Imus
- Exonerated Duke players want changes
- Soldiers ordered to extra time on front line
Gosh. It's good that nothing important is going on in the world, so CNN can run the same leads as Fox news ( Fox also has Imus and the fate of a bunch of random college students in North Carolina as two of three leading stories). Maybe I can lobby to have CNN run "human interest" stories from my neighborhood. There's this awesome lemonade stand down the street that's totally more important for the nation to know about than suicide bombings in Algiers or the state of Chinese-Japanese relations.
Aim higher, CNN. Aim higher.
Comments (1)
CNN regularly does that kind of crap. I only read them when I purposely want to see us centric news. Otherwise they are pathetic, as you have observed.
Posted by Dave | April 12, 2007 05:24 PM
Posted on April 12, 2007 17:24