Straight From the Loser’s Cakehole

[kpete]

Straight From the Loser’s Cakehole
Posted by constitutional mistermix at 8:43 am

CNN President Jeff Zucker:

“Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention, that we all talk about,” Zucker said, “but we haven’t figured out how to engage the audience in that story in a meaningful way. When we do do those stories, there does tend to be a tremendous amount of lack of interest on the audience’s part.”

Translation: only an idiot would watch a network that devoted the last few months to talking about a missing airplane, and those idiots don’t care about climate change.

The good news for everyone but CNN is that, as counterintuitive as it may seem, there’s apparently a finite supply of idiots. The last ratings available show CNN in third place behind Fox and MSNBC.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2014/05/22/straight-from-the-losers-cakehole/

[ladjf]

1. Incredibly dumb statement by Zucker. nt

[SoCalDem]

2. When media starts connecting it to MONEY, people will pay attention

All those people who live near costs will soon see their home insurance policy rates start to skyrocket. You cannot have a mortgage without insurance.

We all remember the mass-exodus of insurers after a spate of hurricanes a few years back...and the prohibitive costs from those who stayed.

Do people like food?..food costs are directly related to climate change

etc etc etc..

[n2doc]

3. ahem

[onehandle]

4. Global warming is killing people. Get your producers to make it sexy and the eyeballs will come.

See: Fox News

'It's interesting when people die' - Don Henley

[Warpy]

5. Zucker needs to tune in to Al Jazeera America

I don't generally watch news, but I will occasionally tune in and AJA has stories from around the planet on climate change, all told in neutral, unemotional language, and those stories would convince more people that we have to do something, individually and as nations, to slow it down before the release of methane pushes this planet to a new Great Dieoff in which we'll be among the first.

AJA is doing a great job and they'll show him the way.