Twitter, CNN, And The News

Recently The Lion conducted a rigorous, detailed, scientific survey of the contents of Twitter Tweets. Strict methodology was followed and results were crosschecked with alternative sources.

The results: Conclusive proof that ninety nine point nine percent of everything Twittered, or Tweeted, is Twittershit or Tweetshit.

The Lion would also like to note that if CNN spent as much time on hard news as they do on bragging on and explaining their Twittish technology and reading mindnumbingly useless and irrelevant comments from Twitterers, they might come up with an actual news organization.

If The Lion wants informed and uninformed opinions he can read Grumpy Lion. CNN bills itself as a news organization but except for the rare bit of intelligent comment and news from the likes of Christiane Amanpour CNN does little more these days than organize drivel and spew it out.

Credit where credit is due though. CNN is a cut above its sister channel, Headline News, but barely, and only because Nancy Grace and Jane Velez drag HLN down into melodrama and slime every night. But they would appear to be balanced by Lou Dobbs and his forays into distortion, phony drama, and his abuse of fact and evidence. Maybe it’s a wash.

It doesn’t help CNN that their mainstay anchor, Wolf Blitzer, can’t ask a simple question without turning it into a convoluted piece of rhetoric that injects his own views into the interview. Of course it appears to be the current fashion these days for interviewers/anchors to talk at least twice as much as their interviewees, resulting in interviews that produce much noise and little light.

If the Founding Fathers had had to build a free republic using the likes of CNN as an information channel for the citizens, the United States would be neither united nor states nor free. We would be a nation of Twitiots, spewing vast volumes of words signifying nothing.

Perhaps something like today’s America?

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