Move Over Big Brother: CNN Has Taken Over

As an exercise in keeping hold of my own sanity, I decided to catalogue the on air news and information bits aired by CNN for one half hour, beginning at 2:10 Eastern Standard Time and ending unfortunately, just shy of one half hour at 2:28 Eastern Standard Time on January 24, 2009. I apologize to my readers for not being up to snuff, so to speak, but the on air news and diatribe was horrible!

At exactly 2:10 a delayed reaction of John McCain on Larry King Live was being reported by news anchor, Fredericka Whitfield. I use the words, delayed reactions, because their seemed to be coming some additional words that sounded like John McCain, as if he had forgotten to say something at the original interview and they were being kind and letting him dub in his own interview! We were then immediately sent to a full screen ad actually titled The Power Of Image. Without any further ado, we were snapped into commercials.

Somehow this surreal activity is reminiscent of 1984, and the character Syme. Syme also sees the activity of broadcast propangidizers. Somehow, I feel akin to Syme even though George Orwell wrote the book in 1936. His points were that the Russian Communist Party was using doublethink to try and break the strangle hold of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia. Orwell paraphrases the Russian mentality with slogans in English like, "Orthodoxy is unconsciousnes." After putting myself through the ordeal of really listening to CNN, all I can say is, CNN is unconsciousness. Or, we're supposed to be.

The commercials lasted from 2:13 to 2:15 and we were broomed away to a derisive attack on the Peanut Corporation of American who we are supposed to guess are sending out your fired letters. All we saw were a group of shocked Peanut Workers and the ad Peanut Pink Slips. (I do hope they care.)

As if that weren't enough and without as much as and we continue our destruction of America tie in, we are jumped to Blagojevich's lawyer and his bailing out of his client. (Couldn't he be sued for violating his client's rights and saying, good luck and good bye on air?)

Not even an editorial from Whitfield. Who next leads us to an interview with a frayed looking professor from Harvard, co-author of Come On People, with Bill Cosby. The Professor Avin F. Pouissaint looked dismayed. Whitfield looking happy as a lark smiles broadly and stops talking. What? Yes, we are then taken to more commercials, which lasted from 2:22 to 2:25.

I don't know who's paying for them, but, from this viewer, I muted all the commericials all of the time. Blessedly, we are brought back for more of Syme.

We are now faced with the Pope and the Headline, The Pope Gets Hip, followed by the Obameter Scorecard. Half expecting to see the Pope in jeans and guitar, we are faced with a pale version of one of the nights of the Apocalypse in Revelation. Josh Levs and his PolitiFact.com playback of a video of a Saturday Night comic with a mask the Riddler would have envied dancing to the words, "I did not have sex with that woman." That bit of trash is followed by an enticing come-on on what's next, did you get it?

Kid's on the Economy.

With that I exited.