I sent in a comment to CNN regarding Piers Morgan

[Grapesoda]

Piers Morgan:

Mr Morgan these is no issue at all with you having an opinion, any opinion in fact and you certainly have the right to express that opinion.... and you certainly have the right to debate your opinions in intelligent discussions with those of differing opinions.

HOWEVER you have no right to label people with different opinions as stupid, or any other derogatory label and as member of the 'press' I would have thought you would have more respect for intelligent discourse.

At this point you have relegated yourself the position of a 'Jerry Springer' and certainly made a joke of CNN's efforts to present itself as an unbiased news organization.

In my opinion you owe CNN and America a public apology...and also in my opinion you might want to examine your behaviors and attitudes to forestall and future outbreaks childish behavior in a public forum.

Best wishes to you and your family though the holidays and coming new year.

warm regards, Brian M Bradley

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So he can have an opinion, just isnt allowed to say it in a public forum?

[crazydollars]

cool story bro

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by Webmaster Advertising

So he can have an opinion, just isnt allowed to say it in a public forum?

sure but as a "POFESSIONAL' representative of cnn and the media childish name calling isn't really called for... or does that one fly over your head? can you read?

[Gozarian]

Communist News Network, unbiased? You dare say, lol

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Originally Posted by Grapesoda

sure but as a "POFESSIONAL' representative of cnn and the media childish name calling isn't really called for... or does that one fly over your head? can you read?

You're right, much better that he pulls out a Glock and blows the dude away...

That is the problem with the country right now, everyone is so damned sensitive about everything, heated debates are what his show is about, his guests know that he's a dick and is going to call them names, much like the Fox News presenters do when they have people on the show that go against their viewpoint, or Nancy Grace does when she has guests on her show going against her views.

This is nothing new on news shows, it gets publicity and ratings, you don't like it, don't watch those programs.

Lets all complain that someone on TV used adjectives to describe someone who's viewpoints they didn't like and their audience heard/saw it happen, its a much wiser use of our time than trying to figure out this whole gun control mess, starving children, homeless on the streets, etc...

Fodder for the sheeple is all it was and its working just like it was meant to...

[buzzard]

Great comment to CNN ...haha Jerry Springer like
Piers 'the Puss' Morgan is probably the only thing keeping CNN (Takes Money from FOREIGN Dictators to Run Flattering Propaganda) on the air right now.
I doubt he's going anywhere.

[ColBigBalls]

CNN is a tabloid anyway.

[pornguy]

Originally Posted by Webmaster Advertising

You're right, much better that he pulls out a Glock and blows the dude away...

That is the problem with the country right now, everyone is so damned sensitive about everything, heated debates are what his show is about, his guests know that he's a dick and is going to call them names, much like the Fox News presenters do when they have people on the show that go against their viewpoint, or Nancy Grace does when she has guests on her show going against her views.

This is nothing new on news shows, it gets publicity and ratings, you don't like it, don't watch those programs.

Lets all complain that someone on TV used adjectives to describe someone who's viewpoints they didn't like and their audience heard/saw it happen, its a much wiser use of our time than trying to figure out this whole gun control mess, starving children, homeless on the streets, etc...

Fodder for the sheeple is all it was and its working just like it was meant to...

Sorry to say but I agree that he only made himself and CNN look bad by calling names, over talking his guest and in general showing that he lacked research on his topic.

I for one have not been back to CNN since.

[Rochard]

I sent CNN an email asking them why I am unable to watch CNN live on the Internet....

[BIGTYMER]

CNN is only good are covering war live.

Only time I watch it anyway.

[ottopottomouse]

If he changed his name to Piers Moreguns you'd love him.

[epitome]

Yeah let's stifle free speech! I know, I know, he is British... But he's saying it in the US.

Let's all write in about how we should ban porn, too!

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by epitome

Yeah let's stifle free speech! I know, I know, he is British... But he's saying it in the US.

Let's all write in about how we should ban porn, too!

are you stupid? this is a fair question because I stated nothing about free speech, only about boorishness

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by Webmaster Advertising

You're right, much better that he pulls out a Glock and blows the dude away...

That is the problem with the country right now, everyone is so damned sensitive about everything, heated debates are what his show is about, his guests know that he's a dick and is going to call them names, much like the Fox News presenters do when they have people on the show that go against their viewpoint, or Nancy Grace does when she has guests on her show going against her views.

This is nothing new on news shows, it gets publicity and ratings, you don't like it, don't watch those programs.

Lets all complain that someone on TV used adjectives to describe someone who's viewpoints they didn't like and their audience heard/saw it happen, its a much wiser use of our time than trying to figure out this whole gun control mess, starving children, homeless on the streets, etc...

Fodder for the sheeple is all it was and its working just like it was meant to...

I'm sorry I didn't realize you're stupid. I apologize. tell you what, you solve the issues in your life shouting insults over any conversation and I'll have intelligent discussion...

[Donny]

Brian's right. It's okay to have a loud opinion but a totally different animal to accuse those who don't agree as being of inferior intellect. Morons.

[epitome]

It's funny how the shoe is on the other foot and now everybody is raging.

Laughable.

[Rochard]

Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ

You realize Piers Morgan was just looking for the right time to sing his swan song? He couldn't make it as you'll soon see him narrating the worlds craziest hurricanes volume 5 on TruTV.

Yep, I agree. News has become rather "sensationalized" - They no longer report the news, but try to make it as newsworthy as possible so people will be interested in reading it.

[kane]

Piers Morgan has officially owned a large group of people.

He has done nothing different than we see all the time from people like Hannity, Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. He is saying something controversial, stirring up shit and pissing people off with it and it is working for him. His ratings are up and there was a story the other day that said this new controversy he has created might be the life raft his show needed.

The more he angers the pro-gun people the more the anti-gun people love him and they both tune in to see what he will say next about the subject.

[SuckOnThis]

Originally Posted by ottopottomouse

If he changed his name to Piers Moreguns you'd love him.

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Originally Posted by Grapesoda

I'm sorry I didn't realize you're stupid. I apologize. tell you what, you solve the issues in your life shouting insults over any conversation and I'll have intelligent discussion...

The difference being;

1) I'm not.
2) No harm, no foul.
3) We're not on a news broadcast trying to get ratings and;
4)

You're welcome

[DTK]

Originally Posted by Grapesoda

HOWEVER you have no right to label people with different opinions as stupid, or any other derogatory label and as member of the 'press' I would have thought you would have more respect for intelligent discourse.

Did you send the same letter to Fox re: Bill O'Reilly

[fendlestick]

He's a knob keep in US and pleeeeeeeeeease dont send him back to UK.

[SuckOnThis]

Piers Morgan: Bible is flawed, time to amend a new one

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner...eliana-johnson


Never really liked the guy.......until a few weeks ago.

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ

You realize Piers Morgan was just looking for the right time to sing his swan song? He couldn't make it as you'll soon see him narrating the worlds craziest hurricanes volume 5 on TruTV.

yeah I couldn't really see him as Larry King... CNN lost a lot of credibility with that move

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by kane

Piers Morgan has officially owned a large group of people.

He has done nothing different than we see all the time from people like Hannity, Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. He is saying something controversial, stirring up shit and pissing people off with it and it is working for him. His ratings are up and there was a story the other day that said this new controversy he has created might be the life raft his show needed.

The more he angers the pro-gun people the more the anti-gun people love him and they both tune in to see what he will say next about the subject.

actually I have never watched any of the those people you have mentioned however I have heard of them, just like I have heard of Dr Phil and have not watched his show either

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by Rochard

Yep, I agree. News has become rather "sensationalized" - They no longer report the news, but try to make it as newsworthy as possible so people will be interested in reading it.

the real 'tell' was the Arabs burning American flags in the dessert... any thoughts on where some guys out in the middle of 'sand fucking nowhere' got American flags and some gas and match?

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Originally Posted by Grapesoda

actually I have never watched any of the those people you have mentioned however I have heard of them, just like I have heard of Dr Phil and have not watched that

Ah makes sense now, slamming one guy you saw rather than all the others you haven't...

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by epitome

It's funny how the shoe is on the other foot and now everybody is raging.

Laughable.

hopefully that makes sense to you... here's one I like: we are laughing but the pig is dead in the basket...

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by DTK

Did you send the same letter to Fox re: Bill O'Reilly

never watch the show

[Sly]

Originally Posted by Webmaster Advertising

Ah makes sense now, slamming one guy you saw rather than all the others you haven't...

How would he slam the guys he hasn't seen?

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by Webmaster Advertising

Ah makes sense now, slamming one guy you saw rather than all the others you haven't...

you're interpretation of slamming might be a bit different than mine. I sent a comment to CNN that Piers has lost some credibly and might consider his actions if he wants to have a credibly in the future... and an apology might be appropriate if he wishes to consider himself a professional news person.

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by Sly

How would he slam the guys he hasn't seen?

don't consider the comment I sent in as a 'slam'

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by Rochard

I sent CNN an email asking them why I am unable to watch CNN live on the Internet....

add commissions and sponsors is my guess-

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by Donny

Brian's right. It's okay to have a loud opinion but a totally different animal to accuse those who don't agree as being of inferior intellect. Morons.

how are the dogs?

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

Just because pundits like Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck on the right, and Maddow, Olbermann, etc, on the left, appear on News stations, that does not make their program's news.

The line has become incredibly blurred between "news", and editorial "opinion" advocacy/editorial/propaganda programming.

Broadcast news programming has changed dramatically over recent years, starting with the ending of the Fairness Doctrine, to the point that many people in the public seem unable to distinguish between news and opinion, or facts and propaganda.

The unfortunate reality is that media corporations put profits first, and since sensationalism sells better than rational moderated debate, the effect is an increasingly polarized and dumbed-down nation where emotion triumphs over reason, and the corporate interests of the media conglomerates and their advertisers dictate who is allowed to say what over the public airwaves.



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[SmutHammer]

CNN & MSNBC are different companies? Seems like the same bs. to me. I agree with what someone posted above. I don't believe much anything they report, and do not watch those stations anymore.

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude

Just because pundits like Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck on the right, and Maddow, Olbermann, etc, on the left, appear on News stations, that does not make their program's news.

The line has become incredibly blurred between "news", and editorial "opinion" advocacy/editorial/propaganda programming.

Broadcast news programming has changed dramatically over recent years, starting with the ending of the Fairness Doctrine, to the point that many people in the public seem unable to distinguish between news and opinion, or facts and propaganda.

The unfortunate reality is that media corporations put profits first, and since sensationalism sells better than rational moderated debate, the effect is an increasingly polarized and dumbed-down nation where emotion triumphs over reason, and the corporate interests of the media conglomerates and their advertisers dictate who is allowed to say what over the public airwaves.



ADG

thanks I haven't really watch the news since I stopped working for KCLA 20 years ago

[SilentKnight]

Originally Posted by BIGTYMER

CNN is only good are covering war live.

Only time I watch it anyway.

...and natural disasters.

When CNN develops a theme song for the tornado coverage - you just KNOW shit's gonna hit the fan.

[DTK]

Originally Posted by Grapesoda

never watch the show

That's O'Reilly's whole schtick

[tony286]

Originally Posted by Gozarian

Communist News Network, unbiased? You dare say, lol

thats too funny they only gave Glen Beck and Lou Dobbs stardom. real communist lol

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by tony286

thats too funny they only gave Glen Beck and Lou Dobbs stardom. real communist lol

Walter Cronkite was an admitted communist and slanted his reporting of the Vietnamese war to make America look like shit just in case you weren't aware, in fact I heard Gen. Westmorland say in an interview that the military had won the war and the press had lost the war for America.

[DTK]

Originally Posted by Grapesoda

Walter Cronkite was an admitted communist and slanted his reporting of the Vietnamese war to make America look like shit just in case you weren't aware

You'll have to show me, because google sure isn't

In fact, the only things i can find even implying he was a ComSymp were comments on right-wing websites, let alone any reference to Cronkite admitting he was a commie.

Originally Posted by Grapesoda

in fact I heard Gen. Westmorland say in an interview that the military had won the war and the press had lost the war for America.

And you bought this line?

Hitting the sauce hard tonight, are we?

[DTK]

Originally Posted by Gozarian

Communist News Network, unbiased? You dare say, lol

Back in the day, their nickname was the CIA News Network. Not exactly commie

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by DTK

You'll have to show me, because google sure isn't

In fact, the only things i can find even implying he was a ComSymp were comments on right-wing websites, let alone any reference to Cronkite admitting he was a commie.


And you bought this line?

Hitting the sauce hard tonight, are we?

His role in the Vietnam defeat is being reported as if it were a highlight of his career. Yet, his misreporting helped create the conditions for a premature U.S. military withdrawal, leading to the loss of the lives of 58,000 Americans in vain, not to mention the millions of additional deaths caused in Vietnam and Cambodia by the Communists. Cronkite?s public verdict that the 1968 Tet offensive was a ?defeat? for the U.S. is widely seen as a turning point in American support for the war. Cronkite falsely claimed that the Vietcong had held the American embassy for six hours and that the offensive ?went on for two months.? The facts show that Tet was actually a major defeat for the communist enemy

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-te...lter-cronkite/

tell ya what go get a manicure and actually speak with the Vietnamese women that actually escaped on boats after the fall of Vietnam... I don't use drugs... I saw Gen Westmoreland on a TV interview back in the early 70's talking about the war and the perceptions of the war, just like the press is doing now in fact with reporting any situation.

just like I spoke with a air force pilot shot down over nam, over 6 ft and 200 lbs when shot down... the fist thing the cong did was break his legs so he would fit in tiger cage. in fact the guys was there when jane fonda came to visit... the cong gave everyone blankets and food etc for jane's visit. when she left they took everything away and beat the men so bad most of them died... when the war was over this guy weighed under 100lbs and spent 2 years in hospital ... ... I bought that line as well, from the pilot and the Vietnams ladies... now here some more shit you can laugh about dipshit... this is really funny

[DTK]

Originally Posted by Grapesoda

His role in the Vietnam defeat is being reported as if it were a highlight of his career. Yet, his misreporting helped create the conditions for a premature U.S. military withdrawal, leading to the loss of the lives of 58,000 Americans in vain, not to mention the millions of additional deaths caused in Vietnam and Cambodia by the Communists. Cronkite’s public verdict that the 1968 Tet offensive was a “defeat” for the U.S. is widely seen as a turning point in American support for the war. Cronkite falsely claimed that the Vietcong had held the American embassy for six hours and that the offensive “went on for two months.” The facts show that Tet was actually a major defeat for the communist enemy

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-te...lter-cronkite/

tell ya what go get a manicure and actually speak with the Vietnamese women that actually escaped on boats after the fall of Vietnam... I don't use drugs... I saw Gen Westmoreland on a TV interview back in the early 70's talking about the war and the perceptions of the war, just like the press is doing now in fact with reporting any situation.

just like I spoke with a air force pilot shot down over nam, over 6 ft and 200 lbs when shot down... the fist thing the cong did was break his legs so he would fit in tiger cage. in fact the guys was there when jane fonda came to visit... the cong gave everyone blankets and food etc for jane's visit. when she left they took everything away and beat the men so bad most of them died... when the war was over this guy weighed under 100lbs and spent 2 years in hospital ... ... I bought that line as well, from the pilot and the Vietnams ladies... now here some more shit you can laugh about dipshit... this is really funny

Yeah, ok. So again, please show me where Cronkite admitted he was a communist.

and btw, i did find that aim.org article in my search.

[oppoten]

I wouldn't be too harsh on Morgan or CNN.

They've covered wars and shit, been outside their own frontiers. They've seen lands where, despite historical precedent, slavery has long been abolished. We do respect the history, and the NSA is right to bring attention to that history. But from the outside it looks a little peculiar.

[DTK]

Originally Posted by DTK

Yeah, ok. So again, please show me where Cronkite admitted he was a communist.

and btw, i did find that aim.org article in my search.

soooo, mr grapesoda.... gonna tell everyone your source for Cronkite admitting he was a commie?

if your statement had a hair of truth to it, one would think there would be a zillion references to it. can't find a single one.

[charlie g]

writing letters, good or bad counters your position. He is a muckraking ass just like those blowhards on Fox. I wish they would all drop dead from hideously painful diseases.

[Phoenix]

50 comments to a birtish guy giving the news