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| Sweet Jeebus.; CNN just got a WHOLE lot lamer. | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 29 2008, 11:17 AM (279 Views) | |
| Aqua Letifer | Apr 29 2008, 11:17 AM Post #1 |
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As you may or may not have noticed, CNN has these t-shirt icons beside certain headlines. The icons are a link where you can buy a damn t-shirt with this particular headline on it. http://www.cnn.com/tshirt/?headline=40-lb....driveshaft.wcvb You have to be freaking kidding me. For one, yeah, let's make some extra profit off of other people's misfortune. Which is what the news is anyway, I guess. Making a public spectacle of something. I just didn't think they'd be this low about it. For two, it's like they're acknowledging how sh!tty they are! "Buy a t-shirt with this crazy ass headline on it, look how crazy!" Thirdly, it's pretty freaking sad they're trying to make money this way. For a whole lot of other reasons. |
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| The 89th Key | Apr 29 2008, 11:22 AM Post #2 |
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you have got to be effing kidding me |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 29 2008, 11:23 AM Post #3 |
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I wish I was. |
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| The 89th Key | Apr 29 2008, 11:26 AM Post #4 |
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I mean...you know me. I don't mind consumerism nearly as much as you do, so you know if I'm outraged by this, then it *must* be bad! I mean...imagine if you were the driver hit in the face!
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 29 2008, 11:28 AM Post #5 |
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It gets better with their Shirt FAQ. I went there for some answers but apparently "Are you ****ing kidding me" is not a frequently asked question. They did tell me this, however.
I hate the news so much you have no idea. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| sue | Apr 29 2008, 11:33 AM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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CNN has already sunk so low.....but this is so sick it's almost unbelievable. Who are these people that come up with ideas like this? ![]() But why??? |
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| LadyElton | Apr 29 2008, 11:43 AM Post #7 |
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Fulla-Carp
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You mean I could have a T-shirt about the pedophile in Austria? Well, let me get my Visa card out right now!
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| Hilary aka LadyElton | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 29 2008, 11:45 AM Post #8 |
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I sent them an email, asking whose idea it was, and what they were thinking when they pitched the idea. |
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| Free Rider | Apr 29 2008, 11:49 AM Post #9 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim Seriously, though, is this something people like to do? Tee shirt with headline? I suppose if you picked the right one it could be funny, but unfortunately people will probably pick ones of scandals and carnage. Who knows, maybe they make a bunch of $$$ everytime a nat'l championship game ends. |
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| ivorythumper | Apr 29 2008, 11:50 AM Post #10 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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You should send that to Drudge. He'll have fun with it. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 29 2008, 11:51 AM Post #11 |
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To me it proves CNN gives no sh!t about journalistic integrity or journalistic anything, and just wants to make money like any other business. Fair reporting? Informing the public? GMAFB. |
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| The 89th Key | Apr 29 2008, 11:57 AM Post #12 |
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I guarantee this scheme was thrown out during a marketing meeting at CNN and people thought "Cool! This is kinda like a viral inside-joke web 2.0 type of idea! Great idea! Yachts all around!" I'm sending this to my friend Matt (Drudge) - hopefully he can link to the story and thus create the (I hope) negative reaction from it. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 29 2008, 12:00 PM Post #13 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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I'd buy a damn shirt if it featured a headline about CNN being condemned for making these damn shirts. |
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| sarah_blueparrot | Apr 29 2008, 12:01 PM Post #14 |
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I would have boycotted CNN by now if I actually watched it. |
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Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow. - Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross | |
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