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← Previous segment →eally good a day or two without enough sleep. But how many emergencies can one person have after midnight? You know, never big ones, but there's always something that you have to get up for at midnight. There's always a lost dog or a smell or a leak or some damn thing. Yes, I did have another water leak problem. That's another story.
CNN's ratings continue to plunge. Do you know why their ratings continue to plunge? Because their new boss has tried to make them report real news without the sensationalism. Nobody wants it. That's the problem. Nobody wants it. You know, everybody's so smart and they say, you know, why can't the news give us just the straight news like it did in the 60s? I'll tell you why. Nobody will watch it. So CNN is embarking on an experime
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nt to destroy their own business, apparently, in which they're going to try to be less sensational. Why would anyone watch less sensational news? If you had a choice between sensational news and less sensational news, meaning that the hyperbole would be added or not, which one would you watch? You say you'd watch the one without the hyperbole. That's what you say. If I did a survey, I bet a lot of…
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