I stuck around to hear two news stories. 1) some sort of high school teacher/student gay relationship which ended tragically when the student died of AIDS. The relationship was a long time ago, but became public this week, I suppose. Perhaps the teacher went on to be someone famous? I was in the next room so I didn't get the details, but the name of the teacher was freely given although I forgot it and about thirteen seconds later they said, "By the way, NBC did not independently verify this story." I thought that was their job. I wonder, if I asked them, what they would say their job was?
2) Gawker's employees are apparently unionizing. They interviewed the CEO, a conservative Brit, who was surprisingly well-spoken, in a nonsense way. He said he was trained in economics and went on a tangent about the natural prevalence of anarchism in journalism, which proves he has the frailest possible grasp of the history of his profession. He also sort of made it seem like America is a union country and Britain isn't. The numbers don't back that up, in case you were wondering, but maybe I misconstrued his argument, filtered as it was through a couple of walls.
CNBC has identified a market demographic which to sell cars and tooth paste. They carefully study what kind of content keeps the largest number of eyes on the screen for the longest time. What journalism makes it to the tube is a function of marketing analysis with few other variables intruding into the algorithm.
Was just watching Jays Vs Astros on TV and the stupid cat stepped on one of the remotes. The sound is off and I have no idea how to get it back. Oh! Two-run homerun, lots of fancy handshakes and he blows a kiss to the heavens. How will I know when to look up?
TV.
The child molester was apparently a speaker of the House.
MSNBC is a favorite at our family cottage. It is painful. It is as if the talking heads were alternately praising the golfing skills of Kim Jong-un, and disparaging the hell that is the South of France, but it is less informative and has lots of commercials.
CNBC is the Rite-Aid Radio of business news. Wait, that maligns the cromulent RAR. CNBC's star is Jim Kramer, Louis CK's evil twin. Need I say more? Nevertheless, you listened to it without full attention or reception. You're complaining that they play Telephone while you are playing Telephone with them.
Actually, I think I'm complaining that they violate any and all standards of journalistic integrity. If you can call such a complaint. I am confident that it would take roughly one percent of my brain to adequately understand and process the conversations which take place on CNBC.