Comments on: With friends like these … http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2009/01/07/with-friends-like-these/ Parenting, Politics and News for the Perfectly Challenged Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:55:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Kymberly http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2009/01/07/with-friends-like-these/#comment-219947 Kymberly Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:13:34 +0000 http://blog.imperfectparent.com/?p=2059#comment-219947 Excellent point. All the initial speculation - almost to a tidbit proven "untrue" was bantied about all weekend like it was the gospel. What ever happened to the "news" presenting "facts" CNN should rename itself CGN - Cable Guessing Network. All the speculation and endless discussion based on it put me in mind of that old Gilda Radner character. You know the one that would go on and on very stridently about some issue, only to have her co-anchor whisper to her something that she had fundamentally misunderstood. She would then stop, turn to the camera and say "oh, nevermind ..." Excellent point.

All the initial speculation - almost to a tidbit proven “untrue” was bantied about all weekend like it was the gospel. What ever happened to the “news” presenting “facts”

CNN should rename itself CGN - Cable Guessing Network.

All the speculation and endless discussion based on it put me in mind of that old Gilda Radner character. You know the one that would go on and on very stridently about some issue, only to have her co-anchor whisper to her something that she had fundamentally misunderstood. She would then stop, turn to the camera and say “oh, nevermind …”

]]> By: GrandmafrKs. http://blog.imperfectparent.com/2009/01/07/with-friends-like-these/#comment-219836 GrandmafrKs. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:21:16 +0000 http://blog.imperfectparent.com/?p=2059#comment-219836 Wow, what a good article and so true, All I can say is when we lost my little sister (many years ago) my mom was uncontrolable, My sister had been hit by a big city truck and it was all over the news channels and front page coverage, We did not want mom to see any of that, And I know ppl, family and friends talk among themselves but I certainly would not want them sharing our grief with the media, I know first hand what it is like to go thru that been there done that, I have never lost a child of my own but I do not need anyone to tell me how John & Kelly are grieving, "We know they are" they are parents, And from what our family went thru with the media, believe me you, you cannot believe every thing they write and say, They spread so many untruths, and stretch things as far as they can, very little stock to I put into the media. Wow, what a good article and so true, All I can say is when we lost my little sister (many years ago) my mom was uncontrolable, My sister had been hit by a big city truck and it was all over the news channels and front page coverage, We did not want mom to see any of that, And I know ppl, family and friends talk among themselves but I certainly would not want them sharing our grief with the media, I know first hand what it is like to go thru that been there done that, I have never lost a child of my own but I do not need anyone to tell me how John & Kelly are grieving, “We know they are” they are parents,
And from what our family went thru with the media, believe me you, you cannot believe every thing they write and say, They spread so many untruths, and stretch things as far as they can, very little stock to I put into the media.

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