Discussion: The Most Awkward Moments From CNN's Bizarre New Game Show (VIDEO)

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Do you remember when CNN was the go to place for news? Seems like a lifetime ago.

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let’s try to limit the applause

You have to be very careful…I mean, if entertainment does indeed break out it can flare and ignite into an uncontrollable conflagration that could reduce the entire studio audience to exhausted enjoyment…so be very careful.
Perhaps, old videos of ‘Crossfire’ could play silently on giant monitors out of camera range but not the audience?

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Like pigs in shit…except it’s ignorance, not shit.

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Sometimes, you know, you really want to finish off the idea of journalists as anything other than infotainment ridiculousness.

CNN is doing their part.

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CNN = Kamikaze mission to irrelevance.

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Good. The more obvious they make it that journalism is part of the entertainment industry, the better. That way, people will finally realize they’re just products being sold to marketers and be more selective about what news they accept.

And that’s been the case for decades. Good journalism has always been the exception, not the standard. That’s why we can name a handful of good journalists over the decades, while there are thousands upon thousands of journalists who never did anything more than just repeat what they were told. That’s why it’s better to read news aggregator sites like Yahoo, so you can hunt for the real news instead of just receiving whatever they want to feed you. I’d rather have a computer algorithm select my news than a TV news producer, any day. And the best source of news is Steve Benen, though I suspect he’s just a machine.

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Agree, and this reminds me of the game-show segments they did on the MSNBC show “Up.”
Seeing Steve Kornacki in a cheesy 1970’s-game-show-host style plaid sports jacket was cringe-worthy.

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Holy crap. I was in a cafe last night with CNN playing, and I saw that show. I didn’t know it was new, and marveled at the ineptness of all involved. It was if they had it all explained to them 5 minutes before the show, and stopped taking it seriously about 4 minutes and 30 seconds before the show.

And we can’t hang it all on the talking heads. Apparently, some of the “official” answers were incorrect.

Chris Cuomo may have a great future in comedy, though. A star is born?

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I confess Kornacki’s thing has grown on me (she said sheepishly) – it’s just at the end of the show (and not every one), the questions are about current events (albeit occasionally pretty trivial), his “contestants” are generally smart and funny journalists, and his enthusiastic spoof of game-show hosts is kind of adorable, and actually makes me laugh. Though it doesn’t make me laugh like this did: wow, genuinely SNL’s-Celebrity-Jeopardy-worthy. (Then, of course, it makes me weep, yet again, for the death of journalism.)

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CNN has totally devolved. This just shows its become a ridiculous parody of itself. Truly Pathetic.

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I do, but I’m getting pretty old. And it was when I was a kid.