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While in Italy on vacation this summer, I decided to see what was on television. To my surprise, I watched what seemed to be CNN. But something was terribly wrong. Where, I wondered, was the update on Chandra Levy? Why did Larry King not appear and begin to pontificate? Why were there no interviews of Chris Tucker? Was this strange network, complete with news stories covering fluctuations in the global market and major international news events, really...
...with what the network has become. The producers seemingly can hardly contain themselves as they bounce breathlessly from coverage of one non-event to another. In August, for example, CNN interrupted a live press conference with Corey Stringer’s teammates with a live press conference hosted by Chandra Levy’s father. More alarming is when the network isn’t able to recognize which of two events is the more significant. CNN interrupted a speech by our current president to bring us live coverage of our former president playing the saxophone in Harlem...
...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...
...only places in society where a thin, barrel-chested man can be next to a dumpy woman shaped like a triangle. I was feeling pretty good about myself until he complimented me on the joke I sent him months ago, when Gary Condit's publicist hinted that Chandra Levy slept around: "Ever since Condit accused Chandra Levy of being promiscuous, I am much, much more interested in finding her." I didn't need the old guys to tell me this wasn't even Bob Saget-quality stuff...
...hard for Condit to convince even sympathetic viewers of his innocence because he acted so pitiless. You needed to listen carefully to find a single expression of any appropriate feeling, whether of sympathy for the Levys or remorse for his own behavior or fear for Chandra's fate or fury at the lynching by the press. Instead the answers were measured, etched with legal constraint and word-perfect repetition, as though he didn't dare get one wrong...