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WTF is wrong with CNN?
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At CNN.com, under "Best of TV" they have a video blurbed as follows:
The Shot: Chilling crash video: CNN's Anderson Cooper has the shot—an Australian helicopter crashing into a ship and then falling into the ocean.
Cooper:
The shot of the day is a tragic one. [Brief details of crash given, including two deaths] You can send us your shot ideas at CNN.com/360; we'll put some of the best clips on the air.
Isn't this just trashy, tabloidized voyeurism of the worst kind?
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That's the direction CNN has been heading, especially with its online efforts that promote such high minded incidents as car chases.
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That's pretty insensitive to the recently berieved families involved. It's one thing to show violence and death on the news when it's actually the news (e.g. one 9/11, in war correspondence etc) but quite something else to show it in a 'shot of the day' fluff feature. It's all about context, and this isn't in an appropriate context. Still, I'm sure it's good for their ratings...
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So CNN just turned into Maximum Exposure. That's reassuring.
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It sounds like they tacked some generic ending on to it, not realising the impact it could have with the story. Sad, but not totally incriminating.
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Honestly, it's troubling. My post doesn't begin to convey the flippant hype they gave the bit, with it's computer-game-esque graphics and music and Cooper's "check-this-sh*t-out" semi-smile, wink, nudge.
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Perhaps CNN went to the FOX news school.
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Originally Posted by osiris 
Perhaps CNN went to the FOX news school.
That's closer to the truth than you think. It's like an arms race of stupid.
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Fox lost what little credibility they had with me when they started their Red Eye show, and their Daily Show rip-off.
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Originally Posted by Chuckit
It's like an arms race of stupid.
Le mot juste! 
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Originally Posted by Dakarʒ
So CNN just turned into Maximum Exposure. That's reassuring.
"These dudes just died in a helicopter accident, bummer!"
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Originally Posted by Chuckit
That's closer to the truth than you think. It's like an arms race of stupid.
It's bloody pathetic.
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