CNN: Die Another Day

Memo to CNN co-founder Reese Schonfeld:  You can spin the numers all you want but CNN still sucks seventh place tit.

Reese's piece in Huff Post:  Jackson's death brought all sorts of new viewers to the cable news networks, and it's obvious that most of them turned to CNN. CNN is still seen, by most people who are not news junkies, as the place to turn to for news they really care about. It's unfortunate that the news they seem to care about is the death of an entertainer, no matter how great, when there are things happening in the world that will affect them and their children much more significantly.

I suggest that CNN and the other cable news networks spend some time thinking about how they can make it clear to Americans that the dire straits of our economy and the deep divide between us and Islamic Fundamentalists is much more meaningful to them then the death of any celebrity. It's about time the networks found ways to do interesting stories about truly serious situations. If CNN can't do that, the Michael Jackson story will remain a lonely exception.

My solution to CNN:  Hire assassins to kill  off the Muslim world's entertainment superstars and dispatch Christiane I-Am-Poor-No-More to her homeland of Iran.