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CNN photo shenanigans

Boggles the mind.

That's nothing.
I understand Redford is making a movie about Dan Rather and you'll never even recognize the guy.
 
Haha... No, sorry, I'm definitely thinking of Vietnam. Google it?

I did - CNN started operating five years later in 1980.

CNN Launched 6/1/1980: This Month in Business History (Business Reference Services, Library of Congress)

CNN Launched 6/1/1980

When the network debuted on June 1, the initial channel subscribers only numbered 1.7 million, a number well below the minimum needed to cover operating costs. Despite the rough start and financial struggles, Ted Turner and his news empire quickly became recognized as a tenacious venture, appearing with the headline "Ted Turner Shakes Up the Networks", just two years after CNN's launch on the August 9, 1982 issue of Time Magazine.

Everybody knows it.
 
Haha... No, sorry, I'm definitely thinking of Vietnam. Google it?

There are reports by CNN, but these are historical rather than news reporting. CNN did not exist during Vietnam.
 
Plus we didn't even have cable TV during the Vietnam era. Think antenna. News from Vietnam was by letter (actual paper letters), radio or local TV broadcast.
 
Reminds me of Gawker's joke story last week, going over all the tweets that came out after the OJ Simpson verdict.

It was pretty funny, and the gullible ate it up.
 

I don't know. Yea, I vaguely remember CNN's start up. In Vietnam there were journalists and reporters - were they all working for like, Time Magazine? Somewhat of an issue because it didn't appear to me that anyone was reporting on Iraq. No investigative reporting, no photo journalists, no film, nothing appeared on TV. Yet in Vietnam there was daily reporting. Although the archives appear relatively thin there, too. So the question in my mind now is, who were those photo journalists? Who were they working for?
 
Haha... No, sorry, I'm definitely thinking of Vietnam. Google it?

This forum has some pretty big partisan hacks, some posters who are just partisan, an some posters who have a particular lean when calling themselves moderates/independents... when all of them collectively agree on a single fact, you can bet your bottom dollar it's pretty accurate.
 
I don't know. Yea, I vaguely remember CNN's start up. In Vietnam there were journalists and reporters - were they all working for like, Time Magazine? Somewhat of an issue because it didn't appear to me that anyone was reporting on Iraq. No investigative reporting, no photo journalists, no film, nothing appeared on TV. Yet in Vietnam there was daily reporting. Although the archives appear relatively thin there, too. So the question in my mind now is, who were those photo journalists? Who were they working for?

The 'photo Journalists' were working for AP and many others, not CNN because it didn't exist: cable TV as we know it didn't exist. All three American networks however were there quite a lot and helped to show, on a daily basis, what war was like and the lingering questions about WHY we were there. THAT is exactly why the US didn;t allow American journalists around Iraq until they started that phony "imbedded" thing. Again, those against it turned out to be quite right. BUt, CNN was nowhere in sight during the Vietnam era.
 
I don't know. Yea, I vaguely remember CNN's start up. In Vietnam there were journalists and reporters - were they all working for like, Time Magazine? Somewhat of an issue because it didn't appear to me that anyone was reporting on Iraq. No investigative reporting, no photo journalists, no film, nothing appeared on TV. Yet in Vietnam there was daily reporting. Although the archives appear relatively thin there, too. So the question in my mind now is, who were those photo journalists? Who were they working for?

Time, Look, Life, a lot of magazine photojournalists, although we just called them photographers back then. Highly censored and command approved. Reporters from all the major newspapers. Not a whole lot of TV cameras in the jungle, they weren't the small things you use today. Lot of pics from the safe zones.

Btw, care to guess who this sad sack that needs a lesson in weapon safety is?

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I hate it when people monkey around with pictures.

Worse that it wasn't legit, I don't know that source from boo, now I have a reason to not trust it. Live and learn.
 
Time, Look, Life, a lot of magazine photojournalists, although we just called them photographers back then. Highly censored and command approved. Reporters from all the major newspapers. Not a whole lot of TV cameras in the jungle, they weren't the small things you use today. Lot of pics from the safe zones.

Btw, care to guess who this sad sack that needs a lesson in weapon safety is?

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I remember this phrase: "war correspondents." (?)

I was too young for Vietnam, but I didn't miss it by much. When I was 15 they came out with small black and white TVs. So I bought this 15" for the bedroom for 89 bucks. It was great, a crystal clear pic, and it allowed me to follow Vietnam on a daily basis. And watch Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. I had an uncle that gave me an old guitar. And between the TV and the guitar, the woods and the beach, I felt I was fairly well entertained. Life for young people was good, basically. Nothing at all like it is today.

No idea why I was thinking CNN.

No, I don't know who that character is. But all these pics are interesting to me because I later spent some time in the service myself. Even the uniforms are interesting because this was pre-permanent press. And the 16 is interesting because it's still the old 7.62 which I thought was far cooler.

PS: That's one sloppy trooper, there.
 
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... So in short, Renae who has been here for 8 years... posted a made up story by a conservative news outlet, in the Media Bias section of DP.... all because... she wasn't sure about whether it was legitimate or not. That's far more improbable than CNN editing a picture of a mixed race school shooter to make him seem white. :lol:
 
I bet you I will get this picture in my email no later than next week from my Mom, spreader of right wing emails she is. Truth makes no difference in the noise machine.
... So in short, Renae who has been here for 8 years... posted a made up story by a conservative news outlet, in the Media Bias section of DP.... all because... she wasn't sure about whether it was legitimate or not. That's far more improbable than CNN editing a picture of a mixed race school shooter to make him seem white. :lol:
 
Time, Look, Life, a lot of magazine photojournalists, although we just called them photographers back then. Highly censored and command approved. Reporters from all the major newspapers. Not a whole lot of TV cameras in the jungle, they weren't the small things you use today. Lot of pics from the safe zones.

Btw, care to guess who this sad sack that needs a lesson in weapon safety is?

gore.jpg

"What comes out of THIS hole?"
 
I am telling you, this will be Gospel in the RW machine in a week, if not already.
Boggles the mind that anybody would believe the bogus "story." Jeepers, it's obvious someone was baiting.
 
OMG!!!!!! This is the photo they showed on FoxNews!!!11!1! Boggles the mind!!11!1 It's like they're trying to pin it on African Americans!11!1!!11

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Boggles the mind that anybody would believe the bogus "story." Jeepers, it's obvious someone was baiting.

Yeah MG, cause the media HAS never done such before. Cough Cough George Zimmerman Cough Cough.

ROLLS EYES
 
Your photoshop skills are worse then I remembered, do stop, it's embarrassing.

You're right, in keeping with Fox style she should have added a Koran or turban.
 
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