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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:34 PM Original message |
Does anybody remember the days when CNN used to actually be an accurate news org? |
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burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
1. I disliked Bernard Shaw but back in the day of Ted it was my source |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
2. No, cause I didn't watch |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
3. Vaguely. It was sometime in the 20th century, right? |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:38 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. yup, somewhere around 1980, i think they started losing it during the first gulf war, they loved |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
4. When Ted had it. He may have been in need of medication, but he was saner than the bums running the |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
5. Then Ted took the money and ran. |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
6. Yeah, that ended after the first Gulf War invasion |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:37 PM Original message |
Long ago and far away. |
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MisterHowdy (295 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
7. They lost me with the color-coded terror warnings. |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:38 PM Response to Original message |
8. Sure, when Old America used to actually be a Free Country |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:41 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. sigh |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 09:58 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. I liked your picture with the African-American lady |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:38 PM Response to Original message |
9. I'll never forget Bernie Shaw's reportng from Tiananmen Square |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:38 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. and watching the first space shuttle disaster. |
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NanceGreggs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:38 PM Response to Original message |
11. Sadly, I do remember ... |
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AlCzervik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:41 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. yup me too, i used to watch it all the time, between the first gulf war and oj |
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Mist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
13. CNN International is still decent--I've seen it in England. More like CNN back when. nt |
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libodem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
16. Yes |
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Spazito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:43 PM Response to Original message |
17. I remember and it quite sad, not to mention infuriating, to see |
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Nite Owl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
18. I do |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:46 PM Response to Original message |
19. Yes! And it was so cool to be able to watch the news any time |
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abq e streeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 08:50 PM Response to Original message |
20. former cnn newswriter |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 09:01 PM Response to Original message |
21. That's when Ted Turner was in charge. He actually has said in |
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Zomby Woof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
22. It was right-wing in the 80's |
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-10-07 09:59 PM Response to Original message |
24. I Thought I Did, But There Was No DU Then. Since I Know So Much Now, I Started To Question If It |
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