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30th August 2019, 09:03 AM | #1 |
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CNN uses an innocent person's name for headlines
So CNN has an article on their front page about a murder and the suspect.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/30/us/cl...rnd/index.html
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But the article was headlined on CNN's front page as Simone Biles' brother charged in 3 killings What kind of bull **** is this? Do they really hate Simone Biles enough to drag her into this? Probably not. But they are willing to drag her name into it to get reader attention to their website for the ad revenue.
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30th August 2019, 09:05 AM | #2 |
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I totally thought CNN was her friend!
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30th August 2019, 09:29 AM | #3 |
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My newsfeed shows near identical headlines for this event, one from CNN and one from Fox, right next to each other. Would be totally shocked if there weren't more outlets doing the same thing. Which is a thousand miles away from me saying it's okay, just that it's to be expected.
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30th August 2019, 09:31 AM | #4 |
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I jusy saw the same thing on the BBC page.
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30th August 2019, 09:56 AM | #5 |
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Yes everyone does it. Yes it's reprehensible. Yes "the media" often does sucky things.
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30th August 2019, 10:28 AM | #6 |
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Hate when the media does this stupid ****. Sounds like a YouTube video title.
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30th August 2019, 10:53 AM | #7 |
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News is what is of interest to the masses. It's not what's necessary, logical, or good for the masses to know.
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30th August 2019, 10:59 AM | #8 |
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30th August 2019, 11:13 AM | #9 |
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30th August 2019, 11:16 AM | #10 |
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30th August 2019, 11:21 AM | #11 |
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I doubt if you’d have seen the story at all if it weren’t for the connection with a famous person.
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30th August 2019, 12:08 PM | #12 |
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30th August 2019, 12:26 PM | #13 |
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And it's nothing new.
It is reprehensible behavior. But having to put up with crap like this is part of the price we pay for a free press. Outside of Libel laws, which give the victim a legal recourse to sue the media involved, there is no way of really preventing this without throwing out freedom of the press. |
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30th August 2019, 12:29 PM | #14 |
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I don't think anyone is suggesting CNN should be like stopped via any type of legal means.
We needn't not handwring over freedom of the press when it's just people saying they find it distasteful. |
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30th August 2019, 01:02 PM | #15 |
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Is it her real brother? We should ask that NBC announcer.
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30th August 2019, 02:09 PM | #18 |
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How about poor Jimmy Carter?
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30th August 2019, 03:43 PM | #21 |
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The CNN is not the issue here!
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30th August 2019, 05:02 PM | #22 |
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A quick search show multiple news outlets doing it. The reason is obvious too. relatives of famous(?)* people have always been referred to this way in the media because the famous person name recognition makes the article more likely to attract attention.
*I didn't have a clue who she was, and even looking her up I'm still not a lot wiser. |
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30th August 2019, 06:52 PM | #23 |
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I'll read a celebrity news story if the celebrity is doing something I'm interested in, like joining a sports team I follow or working on a movie I might want to see.
Also, once in a great while, by pure chance something happens to a celebrity that's interesting enough that it would be a news story no matter who it happened to. But for other headlines in the category of "if there wasn't a celebrity involved this wouldn't be a story at all" I just skip to the next one. |
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15th June 2021, 05:09 PM | #24 |
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Brother of Olympic gymnast Simone Biles is acquitted of murder charges from 2018 shooting
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/15/us/si...ing/index.html |
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15th June 2021, 07:30 PM | #26 |
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Dershowitz is a public figure. He has a long road ahead to prove that CNN said something false, knew it was false and said it anyway, acted with deliberate malice and in fact damaged his reputation, which has been pretty much in the mud since he climbed onto to the OJ Simpson bandwagon. If Dershowitz could win as easily as he seems to think, people would be suing Hannity, Carlson, Ingraham etc. after every show.
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19th June 2021, 10:57 PM | #28 |
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I read that CNN's ratings are tanking because continuing to talk about Donald Trump is getting old now that he's been out of office for 5 months.
Maybe they should resort to actually reporting real news? |
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