Why is CNN International (the TV channel shown outside the US) running stories about the US president's new dog?
Posted Apr 14, 2009, 8:57 PM UTC
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Because people watch.
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It's called canine interest.
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They don't feel like expending the effort required to investigate and report on anything important and/or useful and/or relevant.
It's far easier to get high ratings by running pictures of omg cute puppies!! (And the old media laughs at us for making lolcat macros?)
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Far easier, and far more beneficial.
They don't want to make anybody mad by running too many stories about the war, or about war crimes. Cute puppies and zomg pirates shall suffice.
It's scary, thought, flipping through all the main channels, and realizing they all have fluff, even though you realize that there's a lot more important stuff going on in the world.
Nobody has any real incentive to report that stories that don't get the eyes, and sometimes they have disincentive against doing such.
Scary world we're living in.
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Because CNN is similar to Fox.
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It reminds me of a personality cult.
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Probably because he's our new director of foreign policy.
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I didn't realize a dog could run for that position.
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you clearly misunderestimate dogs
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Because we rule the world and everyone outside the US is obsessed with Obama.
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