Make Your Own CNN News: Nancy Grace Competition?
Looking for a DIY (do it yourself) news site to show TSA (transportation security administration) “pat downs” that are TMI (two much information)? Well put down your acronyms, and get out your cameras…
I’m not sure how long this has been around, but I find this consumer-generate “breaking news” site interesting. CNN has a consumer-generated news section.
People are uploading photos of car wrecks, notes for missing children, and (most importantly) videos about the latest TSA agent who looked at them funny (Parenthetically I saw a guy snapping a photo of his mom getting a perfectly appropriate TSA pat-down, and he was politely told to put the camera away… there’s some saucy Nancy-Grace like news).
- The bad news: the “most viewed” videos or photos have been seen only a dozen times or so. It’s not popular, and akin to setting up your own VHS camera and showing your homemade “news report” to your friends.
- The good news: it has a high perceptual value of importance and credibility despite the “not vetted by CNN news” disclaimer. It’s on CNN.com and listed as “breaking news.” So if it was produced well… it would be hard for someone to internalize the disclaimer.
How long before people start packaging up fake “product reviews” and using CNN to distribute them? I gather someone at CNN has the sad task of seeking and killing spam, but it seems like a spammer or infomercial’s playground… or at least a few Nancy Grace impersonators. I wonder if CNN would pull the content if someone took the “Nancy Grace model” just one step further and actually performed a live execution of the victim of the news report. Or at least a lynch mob.
Who is Nancy Grace and what does she have to with amateur news coverage?
Nancy Grace, Alexis, is a former prosecutor who reports about any sensational crime (usually a child abduction). Then she proceeds to address the audience like a jury, and get them all fired up about the victimization. It’s rather hypnotic and a vial statement of cable “news.”
Vile ≠ vial
She’s a corker, that Nancy Grace. We should use her as our first line of defense in the case of alien invasion from Planet 9.
Nancy Grace should be a talk show not a news show. Ill run backwards and forward.
@Alexis: Glad to see someone else correcting Kevin’s misspellings when I’m not around.