harry potten cont'd

also, i jsut looked at the website and the story BELOW the "dumbledore is gay" story is: Report: Plot to kill Israeli PM foiled

i think it is absurd that the real news comes after this.
how ironic!

fictional wizzards being gay is news according to CNN

Again CNN stoops to low levels of journalism with a story about how "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling revealed that the wizard Dumbledore is gay. I feel like this is not pertinent news at all. I think the only reason this story is on CNN’s main homepage is because Harry Potter is popular and this will attract attention to the the site. I honestly think CNN should be embarrassed to publish a story about such a trivial matter. I think this is just another form of structural bias. It is frustrating going to, what I want to believe is a respected new site, and getting bombarded with links about fictional wizards that are gay and the like.

urbandictionary.com is not news!

Once again, CNN.com is running a top news story about kid’s lingo
In the clip, the two anchors discuss new catch phrases that kids are learning and are now in urbandictionary.com
Here are some of the words:
Kraft singles – means dollar bills
Agnorant – means someone who is arrogant and ignorant
Anchor – means to wait
Bluetool – a person who wears their Bluetooth all the time, even when they’re not talking on the phone
Marinating – means hanging out
Multi-slacking - slacks on a lot of things at once
Breaking your crayons – getting upset
Leafve Britney alone – expression when trying to tell others to leave you alone

I think that with all of the things going on internationally and at home, this is what CNN decides to report? I think this is yet another lapse in judgment and I think that this takes away from serious journalism.

I think this is biased because this clip attracts attention (because let’s face it, reporting on some policy issues, isn’t that interesting).

who cares about prince william's girl friend? CNN does.

Another news story was about prince William and his girlfriend Kate. I think this again is not at ALL a newsworthy story, since it was about them walking out of a nightclub. There was absolutely no substance, no good visual images, no news, and it wasn’t really even timely. I think again this is a huge lapse in judgment of the professionals working at cnn who decided to post this as a top news story, instead of something more important like crime, politics, health care or the environment. It is frustrating to see CNN endorse this kind of yellow-journalism.

dont tazer me bro 10-6-07

I am on CNN.com right now and there is a HUGE box that you can click on to watch the “don’t tazer me bro” clip from September 18th when the student asked Kerry a question and then was handcuffed and tazered by police. Although the clip was interesting to watch, but no means is it current, relevant, or newsworthy. I think this is visual bias in its most basic sense. I also think this is structural bias, because I’m sure cnn’s website traffic has increased because people just want to click on that clip, instead of getting real news.