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Discussion in 'Leeds United' started by MIGHTY, Oct 1, 2017.

  1. Makemstine Roger

    Makemstine Roger Well-Known Member

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  2. OLOF

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    That bird is more intelligent than our birdbrain Polly, and he makes a lot more sense
     
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    That's what comes of him studying politics, but ending up a plumber.
    C'est la vie.
     
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  4. Makemstine Roger

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    polly's conversation audience



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  5. OLOF

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    Yes i have watched CNN a few times on tv,(we have tv's over here too) then i stopped when i heard their bullshit propaganda, thats why i am not a stupid **** like you, who gets all his info from them
    And seeing that ***** Joe is in the Whitehouse obviously he 'won' the election, i know you're very low on intelligence but i thought you would have known that.
    when are you gonna answer a few of my questions you hypocrite?
     
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  6. Makemstine Roger

    Makemstine Roger Well-Known Member

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    CNN thats the ones who's ratings are lower than a snakes belly for all the lies they cover
     
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  7. OLOF

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    Again birdbrain, show me where i said i respect someone at Fox news?
    you just make **** up as you go along to suit your piss poor argument
    you have the worse case of Trump Derangement Syndrome i have ever seen
     
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  8. Makemstine Roger

    Makemstine Roger Well-Known Member

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    Polly a thick **** who asks questions, you supply the evidence and then fails to read it , and brings up drivel that's already been disproven


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  9. OLOF

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    And it was all because the had Trump Derangement Syndrome mate


    Is Birdbrain Polly really Jeff Zucker?


    It all began 42 years ago — Ted Turner’s creation of a 24/7 news network that would exist on something called cable TV. Few believed it could succeed.

    And, for its first decade, CNN largely chugged along but wasn’t seen as a game-changer or a true competitor to big broadcast news entities based in New York in the form of CBS, NBC and ABC. That all changed when war broke out between the United States and Iraq in 1991.

    On the night war exploded over Baghdad, CNN was the only news organization that was able to broadcast from the city under siege as the U.S. onslaught began, all courtesy of the CNN team’s ability to convince the Iraqi government to grant them a line out of the city to broadcast, one that the competition could not secure.

    “How CNN Won the War” was the glowing headline from The Washington Post on a story that perfectly chronicled the events that led to CNN officially becoming a major player. And off it went.

    Until 2002, CNN was No. 1 in the cable news race. But competition that hadn’t existed before ended its dominance forever, primarily in the form of Fox News and, to a lesser extent, MSNBC. Despite the ratings results, CNN continued to carry itself as a credible, facts-first network of integrity that leaned heavily on solid reporting with a sprinkling of opinion and infotainment mixed in via programs such as “Larry King Live” and “Crossfire.”

    In 2013, the network hired former NBC Universal President Jeff Zucker to take the reins as ratings continued to be below average at best. This gave Zucker a mandate to radically change the network from its journalistic roots of more than three decades — the months-long wall-to-wall coverage of a missing Malaysian airliner being an early example.

    But two years later, the move to insert heavy doses of partisan opinion into its news reports only accelerated when former President Trump — a Zucker hire at NBC for “The Apprentice”jumped in to the 2016 presidential race. At first, CNN bear-hugged Trump’s every move. (Hillary Clinton’s giving a speech somewhere? Screw it. Let’s show an empty Trump podium with chyrons stating “Trump to speak soon” instead.) The real estate mogul’s 17 Republican challengers never had a shot; Trump blotted out the sun in terms of media coverage on his way to winning the nomination.

    At that point, Zucker and CNN began to worry. Because while it was a ratings boon for the network to make Trump the centerpiece, there was growing concern that the guy could actually beat Hillary and become the nation’s 45th president. So Zucker unleashed the hounds, but it was too late. Trump would go on to shock the world in November 2016.

    Undeterred, CNN decided there would be no honeymoon period for the new president. Talk about Russian collusion handing Trump the White House began even before the inauguration. And after the nonstop Trump-bashing, Harvard University concluded that CNN led the way, along with Zucker’s former home of NBC, in giving Trump 93 percent negative coveragein his first 100 days.

    For the next four years, CNN served as the leading media resistance to Trump, throwing objectivity out the window. And after President Biden got elected, the network cheered the new president as it had throughout the entire campaign while still making Trump a prime centerpiece for over-the-top negative coverage despite his being out of office.

    But as much as CNN tried to resurrect its lead character — who was banned from social media and largely off the grid for the year — his absence clearly showed the network was a one-trick partisan pony. Ratings fell 90 percent overall when comparing January 2021 to January 2022. That’s hard to do.

    Which brings us to the events of this week: Zucker released a statement saying he had to resign because of a consensual affair with an executive named Allison Gollust. WarnerMedia apparently has a rule against this, so Zucker — instead of a slap on the wrist for a benign offense — simply had to go abruptly.

    Nobody believed this excuse. Turns out they may have had plenty of reason to be skeptical.

    Per several reports, Zucker and Gollust allegedly advised then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) – the older brother of then-CNN anchor Chris Cuomo — on what to say during his COVID-19 daily briefings in the spring of 2020. They also reportedly told Cuomo how to respond to and how to criticize Trump, to make it more compelling TV. (Gollust is a former communications director for Andrew Cuomo.)

    Let’s unpack all of this:

    In the spring of 2020, the country was in a horrific place. Businesses shut completely; people were scared. There were no COVID-19 therapeutics, no vaccines. Hospitals were overwhelmed, thousands were dying each day. If ever there was a time for news organizations to educate and inform the public, this was it.

    Instead, Zucker apparently believed it was the perfect time to exploit the situation for political gain and to help the network’s ratings.

    Andrew Cuomo benefited from briefings that made him appear to be the adult in the room regarding COVID-19 and Trump appear to be the villain. Cuomo got a $5.1 million book deal as a result.

    Chris Cuomo and Zucker/Gollust/CNN benefited from marathon interviews with Cuomo’s governor/brother, which didn’t touch the governor’s alleged nursing home scandal. Ratings soared.

    So, was Zucker’s departure simply about a consensual relationship with a co-worker? One might be forgiven for questioning that.

    Moving forward, what’s next for CNN when the company falls under the Discovery Channel umbrella later this year? Let’s hear from its soon-to-be largest shareholder, John Malone of Liberty Media.

    “I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” Malone said in an interview that recently aired on CNBC.

    The collapse of CNN is now complete: 9 out of 10 viewers, gone. Its top-rated anchor, Chris Cuomo, gone. Its network president, gone. Its integrity in shambles.

    Oh, and new management coming in that is signaling big-time changes … changes that may bring CNN back to the proud network it once was before Jeff Zucker destroyed it.
     
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  10. FORZA LEEDS

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    Learn to read you thick ****. As I said all dems should be executed where do you think I stand politically? It shouldn’t be difficult to work out, even for a ****** like you.
     
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  11. Poly

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    Politically you stand on the intolerant, authoritarian right. Not too distant from that spot, on the political scale, that the Nazis once occupied - and who wanted to execute all Jews.

    So doubtless you have the same (or worse) fate for all UK Conservative party supporters since the UK Conservative party is somewhat to the left of the US Democratic party. Not that a political ****** like you would know that.

    Guessing you support the GOP in the USA, but I was meaning which party in the UK do you support ?
    And I'm sorry, I'll try and spell questions out more clearly in future so even a ****** like you manage to wrap, what limited number of brain cells you have, around them.

    If you would execute all US Democratic party supporters, are there any political parties in the UK that you'd spare ?
    I get it, you support the BUF (British Union of Fascists) !!!


    I think it's more the case of you actually learning something about politics and current affair, you ignorant, contemptible cnut.
     
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  13. Poly

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    You mean questions like: Who do you think won the 2020 US presidential election ?

    A question I've as the cowardly plastic para MULTIPLE time, but he refuses to answer, or even respond.
     
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  14. Poly

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    Show me where I said you do Lying Olof.

    I said:
    "But hey, you might distrust Fox too - so what television news DO you trust ??? "
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    Then I said:
    "If you did actually watch US television news, I could fully believe that Fox is the channel you watch."
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    Learn to READ dumbass.
     
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  15. Poly

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    WOW, lying Olof has learned how to copy and paste.

    Ted Turner was about as politically right wing as Rupert Murdoch (the owner of Fox News) is today.

    Which US television news channel do you claim/lie you watch Lying Olof ?
     
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    Rodger the Dodger used to be a werewolf you know...

    But he's alright noooooooooow
     
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    Ted Turner may have been right wing, but if you could read and understand basic English you would learn that it was Zucker who ****ed up CNN ratings because of his TDS you thick ****<doh>
     
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    You conveniently forgot to include the first two sentences where you said "oh wow, so you come out and defend fox news"
    Then you wrote..
    "Who at fox news do you respect"
    So ill ask you again thick ****, where have I defended fox news and where have I said I respect someone at fox news,?
    who's the lying **** eh?
    Did you really believe you could get away with that you thick ****?
     
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    I think Fox news is great.:)
     
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