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CNN, RCN deny broadcasting porn in place of Anthony Bourdain
By adamg on Fri, 11/25/2016 - 12:14am
Updated with RCN, CNN comment.
Thursday night, an RCN customer in Boston tweeted the "Parts Unknown" show she'd tuned into on CNN had been replaced by some hard porn, and posted screen shots showing an RCN program guide for "Parts Unknown" overlaid on images of the porn.
Both RCN and CNN, however, deny that had happened.
Cybah, however, reports a friend of his saw the same thing on a Time-Warner cable system.
The user has since turned her Twitter account private.
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Comments
those parts look pretty known
those parts look pretty known
Is this a Tyler Durden thing?
Is this a Tyler Durden thing?
At Leas?
:-) Time for some more coffee Adam.. At Least :-)
Fixed
Went down to the store to stock up on more T's.
on Sale?
Were they on sale today?
Black friday deal?
Speaking of tease
Where are the naked Bourdain pics I came here for?
So unfair!
oh the jokes write themselves
On Thanksgiving night.. "talk about getting stuffed"
Parts Unknown.. "To go where no man has gone before"
Parts Unknown.. "this is a really weird sausage"
Parts Unknown.. "Sure beats eating bugs"
Parts Unknown.. "I said I wanted a beaver, I should have been more specific"
Right themselves?
They get knocked down and they get up again ain't nothing gonna bring 'em down ...
Now
Here I am above telling Adam about his missing T.. and I use the wrong synonym.
Clearly *I* am the one who needs more coffee...
Fixed btw
Homonym
Actually. :)
LOL Cybah
I think the "write" term you need is "homonym", not "synonym".
Homo yes. Syn, no.
I guess you just can't when.
Oh boy
Lol oh man . I really need to head back to 6th grade English class. Oy!
It says the tweets are
It says the tweets are protected now.
(Retracted)
(Retracted)
Adam I am retracting my entire statement :-)
Only because upon further investigation.. they did not SEE it for themselves. Only heard about it.
Sorry about that! I just suck at information.. don't mind me.
Last night?
I ask because there was a similar Time-Warner porn thing a few years ago.
(Retracted)
(Retracted)
One more thing
Just a guess... of course CNN and RCN are going to deny this anyways. They don't want to get sanctioned by the FCC. Just look at what happened with NippleGate and Janet Jackson during the super bowl. And that was tame :-)
CNN/superbowl analogy
is not appropriate. the networks that would show a superbowl have to adhere to much stricter guidelines than say, a cable station such as CNN would.
cable companies answer largely to their board/shareholders/people spending money to advertise during their programming. ABC/NBC/CBS/FOX cant even show a boobie. on CNN, you could show a boobie.
Post updated
Both CNN and RCN say it didn't happen.
CNN will 'fess up...
... eventually.
But they'll claim it's not their fault, and that Trump is behind it.
My theory.
It is a bug with TiVo. If you watch porn on the TiVo it will occasionally show it to your girlfriend.
Bug status: critical.
Perfect Example of "Fake News"
It's too easy to fool people these days.
Indeed, fake news (gone wild)
https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/11/26/176229/false-porn-on-cnn-report...
This is not fake news
I fee like we're getting entangled in metadiscussion, but the point I need to make is a critical one.
The tweet that started this story was real. There was a screenshot of the CNN guide info overlapping a porno. That might have been faked or there might have been a bug with the DVR that allowed the guide to show one channel whole tuned into another. However what kicked off all of this was very real, if wrong (no knowledge of intention).
FAKE news which came as a result of websites attempting to influence the election is very unreal. The websites would appear to be valid news sources (even using names of expired newspapers, etc.) but the articles were complete fabrications biased against Hillary primarily.
That is a huge distinction. Websites carried the CNN porn story but are legitimate news sites that didn't correctly qualify their story. But the true fake news that is a much bigger problem are the ones that come from sites that wrote whatever they want the echo chamber to amplify and use popular Facebook pages and Twitter accounts to start the amplification.
I'd argue it falls in the same category
Only difference is where the critical thinking stops.
Real media companies running a story without checking facts? Brain-dead editing at the likes of Fox News or whereever. People believing what they read on facebook as fact? Same thing, just a little more distributed.
Incidentally, I don't have facebook or twitter so I can't judge for myself whether this 'fake news'/clickbait stuff actually exists in the way the left says it does, but given the sloppiness in big media* I doubt the narrative.
*CNN/porn is one benign example. But have you ever noticed that even post Jayson Blair NYT had a tendency to always quote the same set of folks for their 'man-in-the-street' reactions to news? Or how the people's names are occasionally related to the thing being covered, like a guy named 'Joe Green' reacting to a story on air pollution or whatever. It wasn't always there, but it was frequent enough in the science or education section to be noticeable.
So yeah. Skepticism. It's not just for the atheists.