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link Sources: Sheen Hospitalized After Trashing Plaza Hotel Room « CBS New York – News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of NY.

Here is another example of bad media reporting.  Shouldn’t this article read:

A respectable escort was found in the company of Charlie Sheen.  The woman who didn’t want to be identified, was quite embarrassed to be seen associating with the likes of Charlie Sheen.  She was apparently turning her life around, trying to save enough money for her young son, when in a moment of weakness, she became entangled with Sheen at a local club.

Friends of the woman were at a loss to explain her behaviour.

“She normally doesn’t hang around that element, I don’t know what could have got into her.  Even as tough as things were for her, we never thought she’d fall that low.”

The woman will volunteer for counselling and suffer at least 3 months of penicillin shots. 

“I want to put this shameful episode behind me and I hope my friends and family will forgive me.  I know this showed an incredible lack of judgement on my part, I must have been very depressed and not thinking correctly.  Hopefully, time will erase the shame of my association with him.  I knew I should have avoided him when he showed up wearing the same bowling shirt, short pants and continued to recite the same tired double entendres the whole night.  I just hope other women don’t get drawn into his world one day.”

link CNN’s Piers Morgan Vows Format And Other Changes To Beat Fox News Competition: Promises “I’m Going To Be There To Win” And “It’s Time To Kick Some Ratings Butt” – Deadline.com.

A big As if on this story.  It’s possible that skewed entertainment may find an audience somewhere, but unless there’s hard objective news, our hero Piers Morgan will be voted off after season one.  Actually, it’s an ongoing curiosity that the competing channels to Fox News offer the kind of programming that they do.  The U.S. is a conservative nation, yet the public networks are populated with liberal mouthpieces, some of whom are borderline insane.  Anyone with a rational bone in their body can see that a guy like Keith Olbermann is just an outburst away from a fitting with the long armed jacket.

It’s a miracle that Larry King still managed to hold onto his show for as long as he did.  I can only suspect that the fossils who cared to watch him had actually died and left their TV’s on during his show, leading  the Nielson people to mistakenly count them as actual live viewers. 

The record so far for CNN is not good.  Over the past year, they’ve offered shows that were intellectually dishonest, like the recently axed Rick Sanchez and the equally flaccid Christiane Amanpour, to the intellectually vapid, like the Joy Behar show.  This is what they consider to be tapping into America’s interests and sensibilities.  Americans are quite different from Europeans and even from Canadians.  They do not like to be told what to think.  Virtually every network and cable outlet except for Fox has been pushing the same tired propoganda over the past few years.  Obama is a genius, Palin is dumb.  Democrats are sympathetic, Republicans are wing nuts.  People can pretty much figure it out for themselves  and if they determine that the truth is quite the contrary, all credibility is gone.

Consider this.  Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck, two of Fox’s star opinion purveyors actually have a tour in which they go around the country…just talking.   These are two pudgy, grumpy  middle aged guys.  And the shows sell out.  The message they convey is so compelling that people would pay to see them.  I cannot imagine any personality from any of the other networks who have that kind of drawing power. There’s an epiphany here  for the CNN’s, the CBS’s, the NBC”s and the ABC’s of America, people want to hear honest, positive things, not “progressive” agendas.  At the moment, Fox is the only source for objective news.  The rest may as well be part of The Colbert Report.