Word: chandra
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...nourishment of rage. Let?s have rage. What?s needed is a unified, unifying, Pearl Harbor sort of purple American fury?a ruthless indignation that doesn?t leak away in a week or two, wandering off into Prozac-induced forgetfulness or into the next media sensation (O.J. ? Eli?n ? Chandra ?) or into a corruptly thoughtful relativism (as has happened in the recent past, when, for example, you might hear someone say, ?Terrible what he did, of course, but, you know, the Unabomber does have a point, doesn?t he, about modern technology...
...anything ever displayed the danger of 24-hour news networks, it was this Summer of Chandra. Sadly, it has become clear these networks have had to manufacture news in order to produce enough content for the entire day. This becomes especially clear when the networks even invent news about themselves. Once this summer, for example, CNN ended their coverage of a major bombing in Israel to present a special half-hour broadcast boasting how the network was the first to learn of President George W. Bush’s stem cell decision. Even worse, CNN’s information...
...worst offender has been Larry King, a man who, like CNN, was once a respected role model in his business. The Chandra Levy case is quickly becoming to Larry King what O.J. was—and still is—to Geraldo Rivera. Just last year, Larry King would have been excited to interview President Clinton. Come September, however, he is satisfied, even gleeful, to interview Gary Condit’s son. And this is a full four months after Chandra disappeared. When he is not landing these “major” interviews, King makes do with...
What’s next, Chandra Levy panel action figures? These are not the only non-experts to begin appearing in the place of people who actually know what they are talking about. In one of the most egregious breaches of journalism, Larry King interviewed Bradley Whitford for a show about the presidency. It took me a while to figure out why an actor was being questioned about the responsibilities of the president until I realized that Whitford plays a White House staffer on a television show about the presidency. Apparently, fiction and reality have now merged...
...mean to imply that CNN is the only network that has gone down this road recently. Many networks have begun sacrificing news for ratings. Even Dan Rather’s sanctimonious refusals to cover the Chandra Levy case seemed intended to generate news rather than monitor it. Even more convincing is a recent experiment proving that when networks present news in non-sensational formats, the results are conclusively lower ratings...