Sen. John McCain dead at 81

[landtuna]

Let me add that "cheap news" isn't broadcasting a funeral or any live remote. It costs a lot of money to send a crew and satellite truck to a site.

That is difficult to believe since our locals seem anxious to send out a remote truck just to have the reporter stand in front of a car wreck or jail while doing a story that otherwise needs no video coverage. They also send out the truck, and helicopter, just to fly through light rain as if we desert rats didn't know what rain was. I know that chopper isn't cheap!

I also noticed this morning that local channels 3 and 5 (the brother-sister pair) were televising the same exact video and audio at the same time from the funeral preparations at the AZ Capitol. I didn't stick around for the festivities but assume that 10, 12 and 15 were also doing the same exact thing. Overkill!

 

[landtuna]

People don't watch 24/7. They tune in for a short time at convenient points in their day. The news has to be repeated endlessly so when people tune in, they get a quick recap of what's happening. That's how news radio works, and that's how the news TV channels work. So no, they can't cover a major story once. They have to repeat it at least 4 times an hour. You think it's boring to the viewer? Imagine if you had to be an anchor. That's how real time broadcasting works. On-demand is different. Maybe that's what you want.

I am talking more about the day to day timing and not the "breaking news" type of situation. I completely understand the difference between announcing the death of an important person on the day they died. But after 4-5 days of repeating the same story and getting comments from every conceivable person it is no longer a story. It needs to die.

You ever watch one of those documentaries on A&E where each new segment spends several minutes repeating what has happened before the break? That is what is happening here. And quite frankly I have yet to see any interview where anything new or important was announced - either by the reporter or other person. Our idiot reporters were even interviewing Larry Fitzgerald (Cardinals) and Shane Doan (Coyotes) for their views on McCain's passing! WTF?

 

[CTListener]

Rush actually had the nerve to say Bite Me was speaking at the funeral. He did clarify he was referring to former VP Joe Biden and then called him Bite Me again. And then twice referred to Barack Hussein.

Nerve? His audience eats up that stuff. It's been part of his shtick for many years.

 

[TheBigA]

But after 4-5 days of repeating the same story and getting comments from every conceivable person it is no longer a story. It needs to die.

You're starting to become guilty of the same thing here. Complaining about it over and over isn't going to change it.

 

[KeithE4]

Nerve? His audience eats up that stuff. It's been part of his shtick for many years.

What's left of it. His audience has been dying of old age for a decade or so. They also call McCain "Songbird" and "Traitor." They're vocal but diminishing in numbers, given Arizona's primary election results where Limbaugh supporters used to be the majority GOP voting bloc.

 

[seatownmedia]

Rush is a dying talk show host. His spiel is just a mouthpiece coming from the White House, and/or Sean Hannity. I occasionally tune in to hear him talk to his "producer" who is never heard and that makes for some fun radio audio. As in, Rush sounds lost and confused. Why he continues this bit is beyond me. I guess his "dittoheads" love it like an old "My Mother The Car" episode. Please.
Rush has not shown any recent love for McCain, though back in 2008, it was a different story. Now that Trump is his new boy, McCain is in the backseat. Hypocritical to say the least.

But this thread is in honor of McCain. I look forward to the Washington DC services with President Obama and President G.W. Bush speaking.

 

[landtuna]

You're starting to become guilty of the same thing here. Complaining about it over and over isn't going to change it.

Funny.....I thought this was but one conversation.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Nerve? His audience eats up that stuff. It's been part of his shtick for many years.

When referring to McCain's funeral? That's disrespectful to McCain in a way that it shouldn't be.

 

[FreddyE1977]

BTW, Trump is rage tweeting during the McCain funeral, including announcing that he's cancelling a pay raise for federal workers, to distract the news cycle.

Or maybe it's because.....he's canceling a pay raise for Federal workers.

He tweets all the time. News stations are free to ignore his tweets.
But apparently none of them do. They enable him to "disrupt the news cycle".

Apparently whatever channel you were watching interrupted McCain's funeral for that.

 

[vchimpanzee]

NPR had something this morning, but I don't know what.

 

[gr8oldies]

No, I have my very own Twitter account and saw them myself. He was rage tweeting during the funeral in DC today. You can't tell me it wasn't intentionally disrespectful.

Also: Trump syncophant USA Radio News included not one mention if McCain's funeral in their noon newscast.

Or maybe it's because.....he's canceling a pay raise for Federal workers.


He tweets all the time. News stations are free to ignore his tweets.
But apparently none of them do. They enable him to "disrupt the news cycle".

Apparently whatever channel you were watching interrupted McCain's funeral for that.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I hoped SNL would do something. I was right. Normally over the past several years, classic episodes were condensed in prime time, but this week, the John McCain episode aired at the normal time. Or rather, approximately the normal time after a football delay. I hope I can find the end online. McCain went on "Meet the Press" and Tim Russert kept trying to make him say he was running for president in 2004. He had to deny it over and over. Asked about 2008, he said no. We know now he changed his mind later. He was also asked about 2012, 2016 and 2020. Obviously 2020 won't be possible. Then he was asked bout 2028, and he said he'd be 90. Russert, saying advances in technology would make it possible, predicted his opponent would be Zombie Jimmy Carter.

McCain was also given advice about his monologue by a weird drummer who was actually Fred Armisen. McCain reprimanded him and then said, "KID-ding", one of the things Armisen suggested.

He played several characters in sketches, including a stalker husband in a Lifetime movie loosely based on real events. The real woman said the movie was nothing like what happened and her husband was not a stalker. He was actually a pretty good actor, though the cast at that time was great.

On "Weekend Update", another Senate candidate was given "equal time". He was a moron who talked very softly and depended heavily on note cards.

 

[seatownmedia]

I hoped SNL would do something. I was right. Normally over the past several years, classic episodes were condensed in prime time, but this week, the John McCain episode aired at the normal time. Or rather, approximately the normal time after a football delay. I hope I can find the end online. McCain went on "Meet the Press" and Tim Russert kept trying to make him say he was running for president in 2004. He had to deny it over and over. Asked about 2008, he said no. We know now he changed his mind later. He was also asked about 2012, 2016 and 2020. Obviously 2020 won't be possible. Then he was asked bout 2028, and he said he'd be 90. Russert, saying advances in technology would make it possible, predicted his opponent would be Zombie Jimmy Carter.

McCain was also given advice about his monologue by a weird drummer who was actually Fred Armisen. McCain reprimanded him and then said, "KID-ding", one of the things Armisen suggested.

He played several characters in sketches, including a stalker husband in a Lifetime movie loosely based on real events. The real woman said the movie was nothing like what happened and her husband was not a stalker. He was actually a pretty good actor, though the cast at that time was great.

On "Weekend Update", another Senate candidate was given "equal time". He was a moron who talked very softly and depended heavily on note cards.

IMO, the best sketch from the SNL repeat of McCain's 2002 episode was the "interview" from Darrell Hammond (as Tim Russert) peppering McCain with questions if he would run in 2004. Classic! (and kudos to McCain for playing it just as he would on a "real" Meet The Press interview.)

 

[vchimpanzee]

IMO, the best sketch from the SNL repeat of McCain's 2002 episode was the "interview" from Darrell Hammond (as Tim Russert) peppering McCain with questions if he would run in 2004. Classic! (and kudos to McCain for playing it just as he would on a "real" Meet The Press interview.)

Yeah, that's what I saw.

Also, McCain introduced The White Stripes and acted like he liked them, which a host would do. I listened for a few seconds and all I heard was noise that I can't imagine McCain would have liked.