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Is this how a national news organization spends it's limited budget dedicated to investigative journalism? Seriously?
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CNN:The Flag (Original Post)
ZX86
Sep 2013
OP
I don't see anything wrong with airing that. Besides I doubt many are watching.
hrmjustin
Sep 2013
#7
Hekate
(90,645 posts)1. What exactly are you talking about?
ZX86
(1,428 posts)3. CNN is airing a special report.
What happened to the flag erected at ground zero on 9/11.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)7. I don't see anything wrong with airing that. Besides I doubt many are watching.
ZX86
(1,428 posts)8. A 90 minute special report.
On a topic that affects no one in any meaningful way. And yes no one is watching CNN. I wonder why?
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)9. Well some people might find it meaningful here in NYC.
I can't say I really care about it myself, and yes it does not take 90 minutes to say where the thing is.
ZX86
(1,428 posts)10. I feel very sorry for anyone
affected in any meaningful way from a missing piece of colored cloth.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)11. Well for some in ground zero it gave them hope.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)14. The drums of war. Tonight, all night long on CNN: "The Flag"!
9/11 Flag 9/11 Flag, etc etc...
Kind of sickening.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)2. We're not all watching CNN. More information would be helpful...
gopiscrap
(23,756 posts)4. No kidding
gopiscrap
(23,756 posts)5. Welcome to DU
ZX86
(1,428 posts)6. It's shameful.
It's basically panic porn for flag fetishists.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)12. likely it's residing in the George W. Bush museum ...
where he uses it personally to wipe his ...
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)13. Wait 12 yrs later and they report this...
where were they a few years back.