Conan Pushing the Envelope

[Nbadan]

How lame is the Corporate M$M?

[Winehole23]

did everybody rip it from a wire service?

[Winehole23]

if not, that's creepy as

[DarrinS]

Echo

[ChumpDumper]

How do you guys think local stations get their national stories?

[DarrinS]

How do you guys think local stations get their national stories?

Same way Obama does -- just read the prompter.

[greyforest]

Me and a friend noted this when Conan showed it. It really shows how centralized power is in the media. A single person writes the teleprompter headline for WAYYY to many broadcasts. Master of puppets.

[Wild Cobra]

How lame is the Corporate M$M?

Are you finally realizing they are all talking heads from the same source?

[Wild Cobra]

Me and a friend noted this when Conan showed it. It really shows how centralized power is in the media. A single person writes the teleprompter headline for WAYYY to many broadcasts. Master of puppets.

Remember the Al Gore thing said the same way from all the liberal talking heads those years back?

[greyforest]

Remember the Al Gore thing said the same way from all the liberal talking heads those years back?

This is hardly an isolated incident

[boutons_deux]

MSM is just a business, the tiest possible product (viewers' eyeballs) for the highest possible price (advertisers' buys).

[ChumpDumper]

Same way Obama does -- just read the prompter.

That's the stupidest attempt at ankle biting you've made in awhile.

[ChumpDumper]

Seriously, what do you guys expect from local news?

[Yonivore]

Are you finally realizing they are all talking heads from the same source?

Rush Limbaugh plays these types of montages all the time to demonstrate the media is reading from the same talking points.

It's no secret.

[ChumpDumper]

So does Jon Stewart. Funny thing is it's all footage from one network.

Guess which one.

[Blake]

Could US Drivers Ever Abide by Cell Phone Ban?

DALLAS (AP) -- Junior Woods has a well-practiced routine for conducting business on the road: While driving throughout rural Arkansas, the electronics salesman steals a glance at his cellphone every so often, checking for text messages and emails.

"I can keep both hands on the steering wheel and just look down my nose and read in 10-second intervals," Woods said in a phone interview from Rogers, Ark. "I'm actually doing that right now."........






http://www.boston.com/news/nation/ar...cellphone_ban/

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/12/14/c...cellphone-ban/

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...&type=politics

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=209&sid=2670227