CNN is like Krispy Kreme

'Brady Bunch' star tells of addiction

That is the title of yesterday's most popular viewed article on CNN's website. Out of all the conflict surrounding our society today, including but not limited to, let's say, the stock market decreasing, the state of economic recession we're in, and the upcoming election... the most popular visited article revolved around another celebrity driven, illegal drug abuse, predictable rise and fall of a has-been actress/singer etc etc...

Why should CNN even bother to cover such a story? Does it have any relevance to solving current situations or addresses issues at hand or even provide insight to anything pertinent and helpful to the public? No, it talks about Maureen McCormick's rehabilitation and "struggle" to fight the 'Marcia Brady' image. Really? Who cares?

CNN is feeding the nation crap. Entertainment news is like Kispy Kreme, filled with fluff and air... you know it's fattening and bad for your cholesterol, yet you still consume it. It's hard to resist when it seems so harmless. But in regards to CNN, it is harmful. CNN should seriously only limit their programming line-up with at most, 10% of Entertainment flippancy and focus the rest 90% on substantial issues. It's detrimental for society to be eating up crap for news. The news needs to penetrate and educate the mass public, not feed it Krispy Kreme.

**Mission Statement

I don’t know about you, but I’m currently sick of watching television. Besides a few token TV series or shows that one watches purely for entertainment, the scheme of television programming is on a downgrading slope. There are so many reality shows on every channel, television news programs no longer educate the public without a hidden biased agenda, and what’s worse, celebrity news has in some cases, foreshadowed more serious issues on the home front and international level. We already have E! News, MTV, VH1, TMZ, Perez Hilton’s blog, and dozens of entertainment magazines that feature celebrity news and salacious gossip… There is no need for trivial news to leak into our “credible” news networks and I strongly believe that it is harmful for our society to be over exposed to so much frivolity.

I am a senior at Chapman University, soon to receive my bachelor’s in Advertising and PR. I have studied the art of persuasion and the sensationalizing effects of advertising, which has fueled my current disposition against certain television news networks. I observed the changes in the quality of such programming and I feel the necessity to articulate myself and educate others on the misdirection and biases of certain networks. I write this blog to address that very issue. I write to lobby for quality news reporting.

Due to my concern that major news networks such as CNN, are less focused on reporting newsworthy issues, I want to influence a change. I demand a statement, issued by Jeffrey Bewkes, the CEO for Time Warner (who owns the CNN network),

which mandates the limitations of entertainment reporting to 10% of all CNN programming. I want the news line-up on CNN to reflect the importance of current issues in today’s society… Not to report on who Paris Hilton’s new “b.f.f.” will be.