When it comes to social media, CNN is typical of most established media outlets. They’re slow to respond to change, but when they do, they overdo. And no network overdoes it more than CNN.
Its SOTU coverage included John King reading such insightful Tweets as “Go Obama, let’s do it!” and “This is painful to watch.” Indeed, CNN’s incessant pandering to technology is painful to endure. No one cares what Duane from Omaha thinks.
Unfortunately we should expect more mindlessness, as King and that infernal touch-screen board get their own weeknight show. CNN has already given Sanchez, the journalistic equivalent of a Tweet, a second hour in the afternoons.
That time would be better spent reading Larry King’s Twitter feed: “What is it with people who don’t use turn signals?!?”
(Check out Jon Stewart’s spot-on analysis of cable news’ SOTU coverage.)
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