I’ve enjoyed the new CNN ads, where viewers harass various anchors. There’s other questions I’d like to ask Anderson Cooper, but whatevs.
Anyway, there’s a new one with Christiane Amanpour (my spell checker just loves her name), where she repeatedly corrects a viewer’s pronunciation of Iraq (the commercial is named “Eraq”) and also hits her on “Eran.”
I’m sure she’s got a point and all that, but do viewers need a commercial telling them that they’re idiots? I mean, a lot of them are idiots — a lot of people, if not the majority the world over, are idiots — but they usually don’t like being told so. And it can’t help CNN with its “liberal elitism” problem. You know, the one that gave us Fox News.
Don’t get me wrong. I ain’t switching over to Fox any time soon. Give me Wolf Blitzer and Jeff Greenfield any day over the Fox crew. But it’s a stupid commercial in an otherwise clever campaign.
A sign of blue-state media retrenchment?
You might take Wolf and Jeff. But the rest of CNN air staff look like they trying really hard too, (hard), appear fair and unbiased.
All we is a banner going across the bottom of the screen stating- ” See we really are trying to be fair and balanced. . .”
Nah, will never happen.
At least the folks on FOX have personalities. So what if they are lame from time to time.
Happy New Year.
And here is to a great year of blogging in 2005!