Where is Orson Welles when you need him?

by Angela K. Durden

The Most Brilliant Woman in the World

Citizen Journalist.  Novelist. Author of other stuff. 

Business writer.  Songwriter.  Protecting creator's copyrights. 

In 1938, totally as Halloween entertainment, Orson Welles did an audio version of the H.G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds. The broadcast scared a few folks who thought it was real news. 

And from that time until January 2020, broadcast news has been king and king maker as well public confessional and warning prophet. Remember the Y2K debacle? The world was ending all because somebody tried to save some space on hard drives by shortening dates. My own (now ex) husband thought I was going to disappear with my data the night of the changeover. I believe he was disappointed I was still there on Jan 1, 2000.

For some time I've been writing about the FLOTSAM* spewed by all the news agencies I've listed as part of the #CrunkNewsNetwork. But until this January of the year of our Lord 2020, these agencies still had some clout — or so they had us believe.

Remember when to make the news the standard was "If it bleeds, it leads"?

Now that standard is "If it scares, we care".

To show how much they care, they will beat a story to death even if it isn't true.

But the coronavirus killed off any remaining gravitas MSNBC and CNN — and any other agency that emulates them — may have had.

Stick a fork in them. They're done. 

Together, MSNBC and CNN have done everything in their power to start a panic about the coronavirus but nothing is happening. It is now public knowledge they've lost all potency in the market, not to mention any legitimacy they may have had.

I don't feel sorry for them. They have not learned their lesson. They will not change. They are still

I bet Orson Welles could stir up some scary sentiment about coronavirus and not one person would think it had anything to do with beer.

* FLOTSAM means For Liberal Opinion That is Serious and Actually Matters

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Crunk News Network Tech: Of course they did, honey.

by Angela K. Durden
Technology inventor protecting creator's copyrights. Business writer, novelist, songwriter, and Citizen Journalist.

You just got to love journalists who hold the fireball lead to the very last. Here is the kicker from money.cnn.com:

"Two Equifax executives 

— its chief information officer and chief security officer — 

retired on Friday."

Of course they did, honey.

That sentence comes after an article that pretty much delivered one "not their fault" point after another on behalf of the credit reporting and business services company which had one job and failed.

And of course, #CrunkNewsNetwork reported it all just like their masters told them to — almost as an apologia. 

Well, we know that...

Hackers gonna break, break-break 

All the while they hate, hate-hate.

Execs gonna play, play-play

and make consumers quake, quake-quake.

#CNN is gonna fake, fake-fake

and viewers will shake them off, shake them off.

Hey, Crunk News Network: Hashtag this.

by Angela K. Durden

Crunk News Network is fooling no one. More awesome memes. Let's get on a #CNNBlackmail watch.

Hump Day Hypocrisy: Ol' Hil and Vlad yuck it up to Let's Make a Deal.

by Angela K. Durden


Crunk News Network and other MSM outlets yucked it up right along with Vlad and Hillary except they never told anybody about the dirty deals.

If Crunk News Network or any other MSM outlet mentioned anything about the sale of uranium to Vlad, or the paying of any of those high "speaker fees" (ironic quotes intended), it was always in the context of declaring Hillary to be the smartest woman in the world and Bill just a great old guy to have at a party because he was so damn cute and just loves the women, doncha know.

Jerome Hudson on Breitbart.com did a fine job of summarizing the Clinton-Putin cabal. Read it here, folks.

Don't forget. Ol' Hill, long in the tooth but still with hopes of being prez, and Ol' Lech Hisself have raised the next generation of users and abusers. They are playing the long game. They intend to win.

Too bad the Clintons are in the U.S. because the biggest majority of us don't cotton to such shenanigans and when we find out about them, we start with the push back.

Make no mistake about it: Ol' Hill and Ol' Lech Hisself are feeling the push back. Who had to shut down their foundation?

Keep up the pressure, y'all. Strike those metaphorical matches under their boohineys and watch 'em dance.

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Crunk News Network loses the meme war.

by Angela K. Durden

#CNNDirt - Girl Raised From Birth By Wolf Blitzer Taken Into Protective Custody

Crunk News Network: Delivering Jihad Justice 24/7

by Angela K. Durden

Last week a young fellow put together a meme of Donald "The Hammer" Trump from his old WWE days and made it currently socially relevant (and absolutely entertaining) by pasting a CNN logo in it, only to have "President Hammer" add sound and retweet the thing. 

Can you say "Go Viral!" five times real fast? The young man could and found that a reason to celebrate. Until...

Until, that is, CNN — or Crunk News Network* — went after the boy with all barrels blazing:

#CNNBlackmail — What creeps. What bullies. 

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Crunk News Network — who's proposed new taglines are Delivering Jihad Justice 24/7 or Do What We Say or Else You're Going to Get It* — themselves put the smackdown on one Citizen Journalist — who used the time-honored method of social commentary called "humor" — going full Charlie-Hebdo on the young man.

Crunk News Network knows what that attack style looks like seeing as how in 2015 the network did a full timeline report on Justice Delivered Jihad Style. (You can see that here.)

CNN should be absolutely ashamed. But they aren't.
CNN should apologize to him and to all citizens. But they won't.

They are proud of what they did to this young man and, by extension, to all citizens of the world. Yes, the world. Because freedom of expression, free speech, the right to speak freely, has just been trampled on again.

That CNN stomped on rights so publicly shows they've got the big head and that they're so scared of the power of Citizen Journalists they're wetting their pants. 




*Crunk News Network's committees and their advertising agencies — both full of movers and shakers and important and very smart people — are studying polling data from focus groups to determine which tagline will work best with their core demographic, that is to say, Socialists. 

So far the taglines' popularity ratings are in a dead heat. Internal memos from anonymous sources within the network say the solution will be revolutionary: Crunk News Network is thinking of using both taglines, rotating their usage in 24-hour cycles. 

Another source supplied a sneak peek at one tagline's artwork but refused to speak on the record, that is to say they remain an unknown but highly trustworthy source, and said, "They would simply kill me if they knew I was the one who stole their roll out thunder, so please don't tell them my name.** Anyway, the ad agency felt the network should pay homage to all those who came before them. As you can see, they have done that in this logo. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Hitler and the SS. ISIS and Jihadi Jane. What's not to love?"

** We reserve the right to publish our source's identity if she/he/it changes her/his/its mind. 

#CNNBlackmail: List of the network's advertisers

by Angela K. Durden

According to reports, Media Research Center lists the following companies as advertisers on CNN. I believe the case could be made that these companies have been getting gypped for a while now. I know they are getting gypped now. 

In the list below I have put an asterisk (*) next to the ones I do business with. Frankly, I do not want friends of mine losing their jobs because their companies went out of business due to a boycott. I mean, I know a helpful Ace Hardware Man; great customer service, this dude, right? 

#CNNBlackmail

At the same time, aren't companies supposed to choose to place their ad dollars with networks and newspapers that are supposed to make them look good by association? 

I think so. So whaddaya say, Ace and Aleve and AT&T and all the rest? 

Which CEO will have a quiet word in the ear of the network head and, oooooh...I don't know, tell them to stop it with stupid posturing and the blackmailing of Citizen Journalists — no matter their age, followed up with that ever-so-clever phrase "or else we'll have to rethink our ad dollar placement?" 

Hmmmm? 
Anybody? 
Hello?

AC Pro. Ace Hardware*. Aleve*. Alfa Romeo. Allegra. American Petroleum Institute. Audi. AT&T*.

Bayer*. Behr Paints*. BMW.

Cars.com. Century Link. Chamonix. Clear Choice.

Dell. Expedia. Exxon Mobil.

Hewlett-Packard*. Hilton. Infiniti. Jos. A Bank. Lexus.

Marriott*. McDonald’s*. Men’s Wearhouse. Mini Cooper. Michelob. Microsoft*. 
Mercedes-Benz.

National Car Rental. National Education Association. Optum.

Panera*. Pom Wonderful. Prudential.

Stelara. Sleep Number Beds. Stella Artois.

TD Ameritrade. Tempurpedic. US Postal Service*. 

Vistaprint. Vita Coco. Whole Foods*.

CNN claims Mary & Joseph were "refugees seeking asylum"

Umm, no. Mary and Joseph were not refugees.

 Luke 2J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS)

The census brings Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem

2 ^1-7 At that time a proclamation was made by Caesar Augustus that all the inhabited world should be registered. This was the first census, undertaken while Cyrenius was governor of Syria and everybody went to the town of his birth to be registered. Joseph went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to David’s town, Bethlehem, in Judea, because he was a direct descendant of David, to be registered with his future wife, Mary, now in the later stages of her pregnancy. So it happened that it was while they were there in Bethlehem that she came to the end of her time. She gave birth to her first child, a son. And as there was no place for them inside the inn, she wrapped him up and laid him in a manger.

 

@CNN tweet spreads vaping fallacies to millions