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06/20/2003 Archived Entry: "CNN and Harry Potter: Magically Delicious!"
CNN and Harry Potter: Magically Delicious!
There is something vaguely distasteful about watching CNN devote an entire segment to pimping Harry Potter merchandise (of course, Warner Bros. is releasing the movie, and Time-Warner/AOL is the parent company of both).
It speaks volumes that a CNN anchor like Heidi Collins - presumably a serious news personality - is not above putting on a pair of HP glasses and a HP cape like a good little career-minded drone and jabbering excitedly about the HP merch that is all rolling out today. Doesn't it occur for a second to anyone at CNN that giving the War on Terror and the Harry Potter movie equal weight as 'news' is precisely why no one with half a damn brain takes them seriously any more?
Synergy. Bah. Just gimme some damn news for a change.
An idle question to CNN - any plans to try and get your journalistic integrity back any time soon? Thought not.
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On a lighter note, Jon Stewart had an hysterical segment on Potter last night which nailed the current reporting of the book by the likes of CNN.
Posted by MercuryX23 @ 06/20/2003 12:11 PM NY
The Harry Potter publishing phenom is a pimple on the ass of a fly. Are you following Viacom's/CBS's courting of The Pvt. Jessica Lynch story?
The supreme irony is that the Jessica Lynch as Sgt. York/Audie Murphy/Capt. America myth is more of a fiction than anything J.K. Rowling has written.
This promises to be highly amusing. I wouldn't miss it for the world! To celebrate this historic media event, I just might stick an American flag up my ass, run around my apartment, and sing "Hooray for Cave 76!"
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 06/20/2003 12:22 PM NY
Yeah, I was kvetching about this to my co-workers this morning. We had CNN on (as opposed to Faux News, which I had to override today... one can only take so much), and they were talking about the Potter books showing up in stores before its release date, the god-awful amount of merchandising being done in tandem with the book, and the pilfered Potter story out of England. I buried my head in my hands, yearning for the day that high profile crime stories like the Scott Peterson case could rule the televised airwaves... ANYTHING BUT THIS HARRY POTTER SHITE.
Of course, the Bush Administration is pleased that the Harry Potter books, what with their heathen witchcraft and all, are keeping the American media busy enough to continue to ignore the ridiculous amount of evidence stacking up against them re: the WMD issue.
Posted by blunted @ 06/21/2003 01:31 AM NY
