NYT‘s David Carr (photo: Debbie Galant)
New York Times media columnist David Carr (2/24/14) seems to think the relationship between CNN and Piers Morgan was doomed from the start:
It’s been an unhappy collision between a British television personality who refuses to assimilate—the only football he cares about is round and his lectures on guns were rife with contempt—and a CNN audience that is intrinsically provincial. After all, the people who tune into a cable news network are, by their nature, deeply interested in America.
That’s a peculiar way to define “provincial”; surely one can be deeply interested in the United States and deeply interested in the rest of the world at the same time. A better example of provincialism might be, well, David Carr, who goes on to write:
When something important or scary happens in America, many of us have an immediate reflex to turn on CNN. When I find Mr. Morgan telling me what it all means, I have a similar reflex to dismiss what he is saying. It is difficult for him to speak credibly on significant American events because, after all, he just got here.
Piers Morgan (cc photo: GL Johnson)
Morgan came to the United States in 2007, that is, some seven years ago. Certainly many if not most New York Times articles from other countries are written by non-natives who been in those countries for less than seven years. Should we therefore dismiss what Times correspondents are saying about significant events in other countries because they “just got there”?
Carr came to the Times trailing a certain shock value, but quickly became as smugly presumptuous as the rest of them.
Americans are in dire need of logical voices to educate them on the affairs of the world because the corporate “news” media does everything to keep them ignorant. It seems that there is a dearth of such voices among Americans, so we need to import them. I for one have been very happy to have Piers Morgan on the air because he has often been the only voice of reason, especially about some Americans’ almost pathological addiction to guns. I suspect that this is the reason why he is being “let go”. It wouldn’t do for us to learn anything important.
David Carr like his USA audience-type might feel more comfortable switching to FOX – that’s more “American” than apple pie (whoops ; America is many countries not just the USA and apple pie is no where remotely unique to USA). USA masses are as gullible as it’s controllers are imperial – dangerious combination as the drones today and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bombs of 1945 demonstrate. I recommend Fox for an empire in free fall: get the folks spell bound by devious foreign born media propagandist (Rupert Murdoch) – he’s a pro and focused in on finding and contracting the very best ignorant obnoctious billigerent screen heads. Here, Carr and “Americans” can believe in the messenger and identify with every slippery slickness.
You are what you eat
So glad I don’t ever watch CNN.
People here seem to think that we dumb, ignorant Americans ,cant flip a button to the many news of the world stations that are now only a click away.As if CNN and FOX are the only stations we get out in the hinterland.He failed because his show was not liked.Why is a personal question or one who make their living polling such questions.I watched his show.Did not really like it.