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realthog ([personal profile] realthog) wrote2008-12-04 10:40 am

and today's prize for gross stupidity goes to . . .



. . . them doughty bean-counters at the infotainment channel CNN:

CNN Cuts Entire Science, Tech Team

By Curtis Brainard

CNN, the Cable News Network, announced yesterday that it will cut its entire science, technology, and environment news staff, including Miles O’Brien, its chief technology and environment correspondent, as well as six executive producers.

“We want to integrate environmental, science and technology reporting into the general editorial structure rather than have a stand alone unit,” said CNN spokesperson Barbara Levin. “Now that the bulk of our environmental coverage is being offered through the Planet in Peril franchise, which is produced by the Anderson Cooper 360 program, there is no need for a separate unit.”


For more on this, see the report in Columbia Journalism Review. The BBC World News channel should, with luck, be a part of your cable/satellite tv package.

 

[identity profile] sci-o-biscuits.livejournal.com 2008-12-04 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)

"We want to integrate environmental, science, an technology reporting"

a nice way of saying "We want to slash costs by firing people"

[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2008-12-04 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
That's the way the bean counters on Marietta Street like it.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2008-12-04 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)

You live near them, don't you? How come you're sitting in front of your puter playing around on LJ when you could be out throwing bricks through their windows?

Hm. If anyone complained you could claim you thought the bricks were Wolf Blitzer's out-of-wedlock offspring and you were just returning them to sender, as it were.

[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2008-12-04 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I work near them (about 3/4 of a mile away as the crow flies).

Nature performed the requisite service this past March. I was at the time attending OmegaCon in Birmingham, Alabama. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 02:08 am (UTC)(link)

"Nature performed the requisite service this past March."

Hm? The reference has gone zinging past me. Explain, please, oh mighty one.

[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2008-12-05 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
A tornado passed through downtown Atlanta, striking CNN headquarters among other buildings.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2008-12-06 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)

Thanks! I'd forgotten about that.

[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2008-12-06 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately, it did not blow away Nancy Grace...

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2008-12-04 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)

a nice way of saying "We want to slash costs by firing people"

Nothing nice about it . . .

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