As someone who enjoys keeping up with events and tracks trends due to habit and not profession, following the chronic evolution of CNN and in particular NewsNight over the past year has been an eye opener unlike any other. I am confident, the Executive Producer would consider this an obsession with her religious preference but it doesn’t come close. To say the very least she is a political pundit for the Neocons and while CNN may have more equity than FOX in presenting issues this particular Executive seeks not to be different, but, in fact possibly more corrupt leading to perhaps crime and not detracting from it.
Over the last couple of months CNN has tried to make a place for itself as a crime fighting network bringing on board Nancy Grace and frequently featuring John Walsh of America’s Most Wanted. The ‘focus’ has become rather noble and for even attempting same I congratulate the new CEO. The problem is this as the focus has shifted and the camera lenses have become more intense so has the exposure of ‘Girls’ as a subject. That is not so much a surprise as a side effect. Ms. Von Zwieten has always USED children and primarily girls as an object of fear stimulating women into frenzy that serves a political environment since September 11th. She has USED the NewsNight hour on a regular basis to promote subjects of fear featuring Soledad O’Brien so it is not surprising she is again indulging a subject of female pedophilia to achieve a similar end.
Since the change in focus to ‘Crime Fighter’ there has been nearly nightly on NewsNight; since the death of a Pope; a segment, if not many and if not the entire program exposing an issue featuring girls. During that same period of time the USA has come to realize nearly and minimally the death of a girl or girls at the hand of a predator and more than not a pedophile. The trend is troubling.
Last night, the introduction to the subject of pedophilia came to a climax with an hour long interview of John Walsh on Larry King. What followed was still another hour long subject that was again embellished with the topic of Teen Sex and a great deal of the content was regarding ‘girls.’ The program sought to titillate viewership and questionably it received a great deal of attention more from those under eighteen than over. But, I am quite confident also in the audience were pedophiles in the pursuit of understanding the ‘mind think’ of teens and pre-teens to find ‘their way into’ the willingness to be exploited.
The hour long program touted an insight of ‘newness’ regarding its information and somehow the 21st century carried with it a unique focus of concern to society regarding the sexual ‘imagination’ and pursuits of teen sex. According to NewsNight there is a ‘Code’ to coin a featured author of “Breaking the Code” to understand and alas this news team have the understanding to “The Code.”
Sorry, at this point there isn’t much new about sex while women and men have been having pre-marital sex since the beginning of time so the focus didn’t intrigue me as ‘special’ so much as desperate. In my opinion, if there is a ‘code’ about teen sex then pedophiles have already won and this society has learned nothing about communicating within a family to benefit them all.
As noted in the beginning of the program; “Those of you a generation or two older may find a thing or two has changed since that revolution you experienced or helped lead;” there has been an entire four decades since the confrontation of the understanding of Modern Day Sex lead by women and The Pill. To that end is a sad scenario if families have retreated into ‘proper communication’ which sets up barriers rather than effective communication that facilitates relationships. Unarguably the most important relationship a ‘girl’ and/or ‘teen’ could have is with loving parents who seek to understand their curiosity with willing direction into the ‘safety zone’ rather than out of it.
Alarmingly, there was content that needed address rather than exploitation. Instead of confronting issues of ‘oral sex’ and it’s equal danger of HIV and STD exposure, there was a ‘permission’ of same in passivity to the subject. That is a programming error as CNN is leaning toward taped presentation rather than live relying on it’s capable anchor in Aaron Brown to bring a much needed focus and discussion to a subject. If not lead in discussion, then certainly interjected a minute of pause with a word to include a tone of caution to the subject of Teen Sex in a program of permission. It is my experience the American Public is smart and savvy picking up quickly subtle cues that would bring a more sane approach rather than a permissive one.
The most troubling ‘photo-op’ was of an eighteen year old woman, an author of a sexual novel, “Shut the Door,” which is troublingly mired in not only sexual exploration but also violence. The main character of the novel carves her lover’s name into her arm with a knife. The image of her sitting on her bed at home during the interview was ‘daring’ but she was also displayed in the submissive elevation of the camera looking down on her rather than a more formal setting to introduce a controversial teen author who needs protection as well as focus. The image of her sitting on her bed was then superimposed by the sexual image on her book therefore taking this barely legal adult right into a live depiction of youthful sex to the viewer and I can only question what was going on in the minds stimulated by the sexual focus of pedophilia.
The closing of this program was insulted by images of horror as espoused by Jeff Greenfield:
“If this is what the next generation is like out in the open, if this is what they dress like, act like, listen to in public, maybe it's no wonder that their elders are worried, or unsettled, or petrified about their secret lives. And it's certainly understandable that when people the law calls minors perpetrate major acts of violence, however statistically rare they may be, we asked what was going on in their secret lives that drove them to such horrible acts?”
What in God’s name was THAT all about? Somehow a teen with a sexual curiosity that acted on it has turned into the Mad Hatter at Alice’s Tea Party and a Serial Killer. Greenfield chronically goes where no imagination has gone before and calls it responsible journalism. Perhaps that is my concern regarding this change in focus at CNN and it’s obsessive-compulsive Executive Producer in that the ‘word’ Secret that pervaded the tone of this programming is more the reality of it’s creators imagination than any form of responsible journalism this viewer recognizes.
To close. There is an alarming relationship in the focus of ‘girls’ by this news team and the rise in pedophilia in this country and questionably the world that finds CNN playing on it’s television screen.
A suggestion.
If CNN wants to pursue crime fighting in a wholesome way rather than a titillating fashion, as is innate in the subject of pedophilia, then I suggest a regularly and toned ‘feature’ segment on this News Hour while returning to mostly the news rather than The Fear Factor that serves a particular fascination for an executive producer's lack of satiation otherwise and not the well being of the public.
To wishing a successful end to the devotion of it's new CEO as well as the eliminatio of pedophilia from this society if that is possible, I submit a critique to improve and not destroy.
