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This is lovely: 91-year-old British man gives a great TV interview after receiving Covid vaccination in London

A 91-year-old London grandfather spoke beautifully to a CNN reporter after receiving the Covid-19 vaccination at Guys Hospital. “There’s no point in dying now when I’ve lived this long, is there?” he mused. After a “nasty lunch” and trouble finding a place to park his car, the man got his dose.

  • There is no footage of our hero then whipping off his jacket, screaming “I AM IMMORTAL!” before heading off to find his car and the fastest route to Ibiza.

Posted: 9th, December 2020 | In: News, TV & Radio | Comment


CNN obituary to Jack Charlton is US soccerball wrong

RIP Jackie Charlton. Stalwart of the mighty Leeds United, a World Cup winner with England in 1966, leader of the raucous Green Army when he took the Republic of Ireland into Italia ’90, defying the odds and making a country believe that maybe – just maybe – they could do it, and all-round good bloke. He gave many people a lot of joy. So how to pay tribute to the ‘Big Giraffe’?

Virtually all the newspaper front pages lead with a picture of ‘Our Jackie’. “Forever a hero,”says the Sunday Telegraph. And for millions of us who love football he was. Americans love football too. Well, the marketing says they do. This is how CNN hails the great player and manager:

Jack Charlton CNN fail

If only there was something out there, some kind of electronic database, perhaps, where a US researcher could working for the news station of record could find out what the figure dominating the headlines did.

Posted: 12th, July 2020 | In: Back pages, Key Posts, News, Sports | Comment


Hamas rockets ‘land’ but Israel ‘attacks’

Israel Guardian

If it happens in Israel, it’s reported on the Guardian’s front page. Yesterday seven Israelis were hurt when a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a house in Mishmeret, 12 miles north of Tel Aviv, at 5:20am. Around 10 days earlier, two rockets were fired towards Tel Aviv. Nobody was hurt. The Guardian’s front-page headline declares: “Airstrikes: Israel attacks Gaza amid heightened tensions.” The emphasis is on Israel taking the initiative. Missiles that hit Tel Aviv are not an attack , they are “heighten tension” enablers.

The BBC updates:

On Tuesday morning the IDF said it had launched 15 attacks in the northern Gaza Strip in retaliation for rockets being fired into Israeli territory. It said earlier that about 30 rockets had been fired into Israel since 22:00 local time (20:00 GMT) on Monday…

The official Palestinian news agency meanwhile reported that Israeli jets fired missiles at two locations in central Gaza City and in the eastern Shujaiya district. A spokesman for the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, Ashraf al-Qudra, said on 

Nasty stuff. Potentially lethal. Can we take sides? Let’s see. The Guardian produces the suggestive headline: “Israeli military bombs Gaza after rocket strike.” Who fired the rocket? No mention of Hamas in the headline. Why not “Hamas military attacks Israel”? The Jerusalem Post opts for: “TENSE QUIET IN SOUTHERN ISRAEL AFTER NIGHT OF ROCKETS AND AIRSTRIKES.” Words matter.

The Mail tell readers: “

Gaza is controlled by Hamas, a militant Palestinian group that seeks Israel’s destruction and possesses a large arsenal of rockets and missiles capable of striking deep inside Israel. The territory is home to other Palestinian militant groups, including Islamic Jihad, an Iranian-backed armed organization that also has a rocket arsenal.


The Guardian tells its readers:

In an apparent attempt to de-escalate the situation, a Hamas official, speaking to the Agence France-Presse news agency on condition of anonymity, denied the group was behind the rocket launch, and even suggested the projectile was automatically fired by mistake following “bad weather”.

Is what newspapers love out as important as what they put in? No mention of rocket arsenals and Iran’s role in things in the Guardian’s report. No mention of bad weather and defusing tensions in the Mail’s. The Sun says the family’s whose home was destroyed by the rocket “cheated death”. And get a load of this headline from CNN:

The rocket ‘lands’

Did the rockets that “obliterated” a family home just land, as a plane lands?


Posted: 26th, March 2019 | In: News | Comment


NBC announces death of Senator John McCain with mating human dolphins

 

RIP John McCain (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018). Victor in six elections to the US Senate, McCain was the US navy pilot who crashed twice. He was was on the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal when his A-4 Skyhawk jet caught fire. He was hit by shrapnel by the plane’s exploding bombs. The accident cost 134 men their lives. He was shot down during the Vietnam War, bayonetted, beaten badly and held for five-and-a-half years as a prisoner in inhuman conditions at the infamous Hoa Lo prison. The admiral’s son survived months in solitary confinement and torture. When he ran for Congress in Arizona, he told a journalist who accused him of not being local:

“Listen pal. I spent 22 years in the Navy. My father was in the Navy. My grandfather was in the Navy. We in the military service tend to move a lot. We have to live in all parts of the country, all parts of the world. I wish I could have had the luxury, like you, of growing up and living and spending my entire life in a nice place like the First District of Arizona, but I was doing other things… The place I lived longest in my life was Hanoi.”

And on CNN

Posted: 26th, August 2018 | In: Key Posts, News, Politicians, Strange But True, TV & Radio | Comment


CNN v HansAssholeSolo: Trump’s Reddit meme tweet exposes the old media’s thin skin

trump cnn memeWhen Donald Trump tweeted a meme made by Reddit user HansAssholeSolo, CNN were upset. The meme was a mash-up of footage of Trump wrestling WWE CEO Vince McMahon to the deck in 2007 altered so that McMahon’s face was replaced with CNN’s logo.

Trump and CNN are at loggerheads. He says they broadcast fake news to an anti-him agenda. They say he’s America’s enemy. HansAssholeSolo morphed this sad war of words into an actual fight. Joke. Geddit?

CNN didn’t. It’s issued a threat. No, not to Trump. They’re threatening HansAssholeSolo. If he lampoons CNN ever again, the broadcaster will stop talking truth to power and attack. Judgmental CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski says CNN “reserves the right to publish his identity” if he commits “ugly behaviour on social media again”. To some this sounds like “blackmail“. Take on the corporation and you will pay. Comply or else. That Kaczynski’s makes his threat beneath the headline “How CNN found the Reddit user behind the Trump wrestling GIF” only adds to the absurdity. Unless the BBC can discover which leg Trump puts first into his trousers, that Pulitzer’s in the bag.

In a lengthy apology, a worried HansAssholeSolo says: “Free speech is a right we all have, but it shouldn’t be used in the manner that it was in the posts that were put on this site. I do not advocate violence against the press and the meme I posted was [not] advocating that in any way, shape, or form.”

It was a joke that thanks to Trump’s priapic tweet finger and monocular news agency CNN has gotten out of hand. And it’s exposed how prissy CNN is; how like Trump, CNN is over-sensitive, vain and self-regarding. It shows us how terrified CNN is of the power of newer, non-telly media. CNN’s viewers are in bed by 10pm and watching from rented rooms because they’ve tired of the hotel’s infomercial; twitter and Reddit users are tuning in anywhere at any time.

It’s as illuminating as it is entertaining. And the row is mildly contradictory: like The Donald’s skin, it’s terrible – and there’s not enough of it.

Posted: 6th, July 2017 | In: Key Posts, News, Politicians, TV & Radio | Comment


Fail: CNN illustrates Nice horror with advert for tyres

So how did CNN illustrate the story of the Islamist maniac who murdered scores of people on Bastille Day in Nice, France? With an advert for Falken tires [sic] that grip:

 

breaking news ads nice cnn

 

Native advertising is a horror, Whoever invented it should be taken from this place and forced to live in an echo chamber.

Posted: 16th, July 2016 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, The Consumer | Comment


CNN: ‘Australia Building Fence at Slovenian Border’

CNN fail

 

As @TheMichaelMoran puts it: “Taking no chances, the Aussies.”

CNN: ‘Australia Building Fence at Slovenian Border’

 

 

Posted: 1st, March 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


CNN produces this tasteless report on the Germanwings crash

So. How does CNN repoft the news that the co-pilot locked the pilot out off his cockopit and steered German A320 Airbus flight 4U 9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf and killed all 150 people on board?

French investigators say co-pilot Andreas Lubitz sent it into a dive intentionally.

Families of the victims might like to look away:

 

erman A320 Airbus flight 4U 9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf came down in a remote mountain valley in France on Tuesday 24 March, killing all 150 people on board.

Posted: 26th, March 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment


CNN reports: attack on Paris kosher supermarket was an attack on Muslims who shop there

We go live to Paris, where CNN are by a kosher supermarket where people have been murdered. Some, like the French Preesident, say the attack on a kosher supermarket was driven by rabid anti-semitism.

But CNN seeks to clarify. Chris Cuomo is talking to grocery expert Isa Soares. It turns out that the kosher supermaket is a Muslim supermarket. It’s not anti-Semitism, after all:

 

 

If the BBC Tim Willcox is looking for a new challenge, he’d fit right in at CNN…

 

Posted: 13th, January 2015 | In: Reviews | Comment


CNN Live News: ‘Seal Kills Obama’

ON CNN – LIVE: SEAL KILLS OBAMA!

cnn seal kills obama

 

Join the club…

 

Posted: 8th, November 2014 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)


How Did CNN Cast The Scottish Independent Referendum? Like This

 

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Posted: 19th, September 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


CNN says Hong Kong is in Brazil (photo)

THE average American is smarter than CNN’s killer hornet map expert, who managed to local Hong Kong in Brazil.

As Brazil’s giant hornet community says: “Visit China before China visits you.”

CNN fail

Posted: 8th, October 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


CNN hacked Christopher Stevens

THIS is unreal. Christopher Stevens lay dead in Libya. The US Ambassador and three other Americans have been murdered. So, CNN goes looting. It looks over the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. It finds Mr Stevens’ diary. The US State Department’s Philippe Reines taks a view:

Whose first instinct is to remove from a crime scene the diary of a man killed along with three other Americans serving our country, read it, transcribe it, email it around your newsroom for others to read and then call the family?

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Posted: 24th, September 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


Is CNN dying?

IS Big Media dying? No. It’s just that 24/7 rolling TV news is not the must-see broadcast it was:

It’s no April Fool’s joke — last month CNN delivered its lowest-rated month in total day in over a decade, since August 2001, the month before the September 11 attacks. The once-dominant cable news network posted decade-lows among both total viewers (357,000) and Adults 25-54 (108,000).

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Posted: 2nd, May 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment


CNN tells Americans London is in Norfolk

ACCORDING to CNN, London is now in Norfolk, England. CNN wanted to show its US viewers the epicentre of the phone hacking story. Either CNN knows something we do not – isn’t the police hacking school based at GCHQ in Gloucestershire? – or else the station made an error.

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Posted: 31st, January 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)


‘Fight Over NY Mosque Shits To DC’ On CNN

THE fight over the New York Mosque is making news-  not helped by Barack Obama ambling in and then working the reverse ferret. On CNN, the news can be summed up as “Fight Over NY Mosque – Shits to DC“.

Well, yes.

It’s the news in a nutshell…

Bar For Islamic Gays To Open Next To 9/11 Mosque

Stop The Manhattan Mosque – It’s In A Muslim Zero Tolerance Area

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Posted: 17th, August 2010 | In: Reviews | Comment


CNN Recruits Journos From Gay Porn: Collin O’Neil Reports

NEWS is in such a desperate state that it will use anyone as a reporter, so long as they are cheas and are live near the scene. Anorak’s man in LA looks at CNN and it’s new reporter Collin O’Neill. We go live to gay porn central:

KNOW how CNN recruits and relies on eyewitness accounts from viewers with video cameras (or cell phones) for their on-the-scene “i-Reports?”

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Posted: 21st, December 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment


CNN Created The Michael Jackson Ghost

YOU know that Michael Jackson ghost at Neverland? Well, it’s an impersonator ghost.

Well, it’s not. CNN created the ghost when a crew member walked (surely moonwalked? – ed) past a light.

File this report under Beyond Parody as Larry’s TV man in the know gets excited about seeing his rot on  TV. Let’s make up news, people:

Michael Jackson Attraction: The Ten Best Neverland Experiences

Michael Jackson’s Nurse Denies Stomach Pump Claims

Micheal Jackson’s Debbie Rowe Claims News of World Interview ‘Fake’

Posted: 7th, July 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (6)


China’s Intranet Internet Bans CNN And Digg

CHINA Telecom loosk to be blocking “unhealthy” content, popping up a green damn to stop the viewers seeing things like CNN and Digg. The message claims to be from “mommy and daddy“.

China is your family now.

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On Danwei, readers react:

The notice asks you to enter a password if you want to see the “unhealthy” content, and says that it’s a notice from “mommy and daddy.”

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Posted: 2nd, July 2009 | In: Technology | Comment


Michael Jackson: CNN Raises Questions About Bubbles’ Parentage

MICHAEL Jackson Watch: CNN tracks down Bubbles, and raises questions about his parentage…

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Posted: 2nd, July 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)


Susan Boyle Watch: Susie Simple Stalked By Demi Moore And Meets Oprah Winfrey



SUSAN Boyle Watch: Anorak’s looks at Britain’s Got Talent agonist Susan Boyle in the news…

Never been kissed?

Says Neighbour Brian Smith, 51:

“It’s not true Susan’s never been kissed. I’ve given her many a peck on the cheek to say ‘Don’t worry, everything’s going to be all right’. She comes to me when she needs help or a shoulder to cry on…I never knew her to have a birthday party because she was busy caring for her mother” –


Daily Mirror

Assuming she is a Protestant, and I may be wrong, but let’s assume it anyway, Scottish Protestant church going is about one thing – avoiding physical and emotional contact with another human being… Susan Boyle comes from a place where confidence can be in short measures, like the whiskey. But not her. She pulled out her talent to show them, almost to spite them. Look at me. I’ve never been kissed. Never touched. Don’t need it. –
Alan Black, SF Gate

Yobbos

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Posted: 18th, April 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (16)


Susan Boyle Sings On Larry King: Video

SUSAN Boyle Watch: She’s live on Larry King live…

Anorak reader Cheryl in the US writes:

Anderson [Cooper] carried more on her tonight (right on after Larry King) but mainly repeating what Larry King said and he also showed her singing the song from the Titanic

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Posted: 18th, April 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)


Ashton Kutcher Kills Twitter

ASHTON Kutcher aims to be the King of Twitter.

Can Ashton communicate in 140 characters or less?

In today’s look at how the media works, Anorak spots CNN leading with “BREAKING NEWS” on the story that CNN is writing about Hollywood pro-celebrity Kutcher.

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Posted: 17th, April 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)


Susan Boyle Sings Live On Anderson Cooper: Video

SUSAN Boyle is becoming all things to all journalists.

Anorak reader Cheryl writes from the US that Anderson Cooper is getting ready (at an ungodly hour in a.m.) to run an exclusive interview he had with Boyle, and she sings for him sitting at her piano.

Then, CNN is running a special live interview with her at 7:30 a.m.

How long will the Boyle sensation last? Anorak says until she removes her fright wig, undoes her Frump Suit and reveals herself as the blonde stunna God made her…

Susan Boyle Sings Live On American TV: Video

Video: Barack Obama On Susan Boyle

Pictures: Susan Boyle Naked

Demi Moore Twitters Susan Boyle

Video: Susan Boyle On Britain’s Got Talent

Susan Boyle Look-Alike Exposed

Susan Boyle Is Britain’s Got Talent

Boyle by name – Susan Boyle Is Boiled Alive

She’s as big as a garage – Susan Boyle Sings In Her Garage

Susan Boyle To Sing At Olympics Opening Ceremony

Posted: 17th, April 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (3)


CNN Bias On Tea-Bagging

TEA-BAGGING is being covered by CNN. A group called “Founding Bloggers” arrives. But before that, the CNN reporter is intent on making her point.

Having introduced a man with his “two-year-old” she says the protest is not “family viewing” and goes back to the studio. Such are the facts:

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Posted: 16th, April 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment