RSSCNN's King Admits to Rarely Using Net
By the Betanews Staff | Published November 17, 2006, 3:49 PM
Call Larry King old school. The 72-year-old CNN stalwart admitted in a Wednesday episode of Larry King Live that he had never used an Internet search engine while interviewing comedian Rosanne Barr. Barr was astonished at the newscaster's apparent Internet naivety, saying "it just opens up the whole universe. It's so awesome. You would love it."
King said he wouldn't. "The wife loves it. I wouldn't love it. What do you punch little buttons and things?" he responded. Even after repeated attempts by the comedian to convince King that Web surfing wasn't that difficult, and also offering assistance in learning how to do it, King wasn't having any of it. "No thanks," he said.
How the hell does he get his information? From the telly? His wife?
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|He uses the google to check out things on the internets.
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|This is a non-story in all ways.
(Senator) Ted Stevens idiotic comments ("series of tubes") are more scary since he's actually in a position to shape policy. King's a softball hack who plays up his "I'm old school" a bit too much for this viewer. Git.
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|Very funny.
Josh Chandler
www.techilious.wordpress.com
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|I bet there is only one (maybe two) person(s) who can truthfully claim to have used an Internet search engine while interviewing comedian Rosanne Barr... ;)
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|Is this really news? I didn't think poor ol' Larry King even used a toilet.. much less a search engine!
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|That's hilarious. Thanks for that tidbit.
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|Larry King is a soft-ball question-lobbing hack reporter. He should have retired a long time ago. He was also quoted as saying, "Call me a Morse-fanboy, but I will always stay behind DOT-DOT-DASH-DOT-DOT-DOT." What an arse.
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|How did this end up as "news" on this site? Did I miss the Larry King Beta 2 or RC-1 statement somewhere? What's next? Larry admits his cat is stuck in a tree?
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|Totally agree. Nuff said.
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|"Internet" is perhaps the word that got him in here I suppose, it is remotely kinda-sorta related to software which can be or be related to beta software :D
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|*sigh*
It's a computer tech-news website. The stories are often - but not necessarily - about betas, but always computer technology at the least.
Wouldn't you agree that someone never using the Internet is related to computer technology?
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|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lYiDo0DjSk
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|While I admit using the internet does not make one smarter--in fact sometimes I wonder if the exact opposite isn't true--it is stupid not to ever use it.
If he can't search using google by now, he can't be very reliable at his other job I'm afraid.
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|Bush uses email from what I understand. King is an old irrelevent fossil
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|My 70-year old mom has the same reaction. She has a new computer, has been online to check her little investment fortune, but has no use for the internet and finds it a time sink at her age. As for bush admitted he never uses email because he knows Congress might subpoena them for his illegal activities (can you say "spying?"). I've heard he has used the Googles, though.
You should have said no before your 40s, bushie, you should have said no.
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|Yes, Bush uses The Google.
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|He's no different from Clinton in that respect. Clinton sent exactly two e-mails in his entire eight years, and it's expected that this will continue as a normal status for presidents in the future due to the fact that they are federal government property, so conversations that he has with friends and family become public record available through FOIA requests. For similar reasons, they do not use IM or other similar communications methods.
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|No kidding. Look what happened to Mark Foley after his gay instant messages from AOL were made public. A president would be a fool to even use his own personal computer for any communications...
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|I use The Google too. In fact I now call it "The Google", since it sounds less like an annoyingly ubiquitous and omnipotent entity and more like a useful tool.
I also use "The Clusty". As for Larry King, he must be the worst interviewer in the world, it's no surprise he doesn't use the internet.
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|And this is why people find him irrelevant. Bush uses "the internets" though.
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|Through the tubes?
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|First Area-51, now a parallel internet? Say it ain't so!
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