"But this time they aren't impeaching Donald Trump...they're impeaching Donald Drumpf," intones newscaster Anderson Cooper with the gravitas of a man giving a eulogy at a mass funeral for thousands of first responders
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I've not watched CNN for more than 15 minutes for any stretch since the original Gulf War and the extent to which this network provides nonstop commentary on the Same News Story all day long, while stumping and spinning to create redemption arcs for "moderates," is remarkable
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Like who is the audience for this? Your retired schoolteacher aunt/uncle who have a beach condo and are "doing ok" and read Time and go to PTA meetings in Dubuque IA despite being childless because it's the "right thing to do"? Is that still a type of person?
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Also I had no idea the same news story, usually a Trump tweet of some sort, "breaks" every hour on the hour across a 24-hour cycle. And yet...
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These people are better at creating suspense related to one or another "fait accompli" ("will Mayo Pete turn the tide, whatever the tide is?") than ol' JR and Schiavone calling a scripted wrestling match. Meanwhile there is more actual news "content" on the Drudge landing page
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Does the audience for this stuff even know where a "tweet" comes from? This kind of nonstop "breaking news" (the same news breaks over and over, and is always being hyped) seems to exist in a hermetically sealed, self-referencing universe that even the WWE can't match
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Once went on a tour of CNN because had some time to kill and hoooboyyy it's made for Delta Squad level boomers.
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What did you see there?
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