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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Miley Cyrus’ VMA Performance Was Our Top Story
Over the years, CNN.com has become a news website that many people turn to for top-notch reporting. Every day it is visited by millions of people, all of whom rely on The Worldwide Leader in Newsthats our sloganfor the most crucial, up-to-date information on current events. So, you may ask, why was this mornings top story, a spot usually given to the most important foreign or domestic news of the day, headlined Miley Cyrus Did What??? and accompanied by the subhead Twerks, stuns at VMAs?
Its a good question. And the answer is pretty simple. It was an attempt to get you to click on CNN.com so that we could drive up our web traffic, which in turn would allow us to increase our advertising revenue.
There was nothing, and I mean nothing, about that story that related to the important news of the day, the chronicling of significant human events, or the idea that journalism itself can be a force for positive change in the world. For Christs sake, there was an accompanying story with the headline Mileys Shocking Moves. In fact, putting that story front and center was actually doing, if anything, a disservice to the public. And come to think of it, probably a disservice to the hundreds of thousands of people dying in Syria, those suffering from the current unrest in Egypt, or, hell, even people who just wanted to read about the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther Kings I Have A Dream speech.
But boy oh boy did it get us some web traffic.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/let-me-explain-why-miley-cyrus-vma-performance-was,33632/
ejpoeta
(8,933 posts)though i have no idea what it is. they word the headline such that it makes a person wonder what miley cyrus did i guess. and what is twerking. it's like watching a train wreck i guess. can't help but rubberneck. I would have avoided it, but it was all over the news. I don't really watch much tv news.... my local news and the today show insofar as it is on and I go in and out of my room and see it that way.
Shivering Jemmy
(900 posts)I have schoolteachers in the family who have explained this to me.
ejpoeta
(8,933 posts)actually.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)Mr Dixon
(1,185 posts)Just check youtube, Twerking has been around for years the Mainstream media is a little late on this one, or is it because Miley Cyrus has started do it that there is such an outrage? SMH
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)I don't watch it and ver rarely go to their website
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)I think they nailed it.