Media Matters: CNN or CBN? CNN talks apocalypse AGAIN

[Bluebear]

CNN or CBN? Phillips asks apocalypse authors: "re we living in the last days?"

Summary: With Kyra Phillips's discussion of the Apocalypse and the Middle East conflict with Christian authors Jerry Jenkins and Joel C. Rosenberg -- who share the view that the Rapture is nigh -- CNN has, for the second time in three days, featured a segment on the potential coming of the Apocalypse, as indicated by current conflicts in the Middle East.

For the second time in three days, CNN featured a segment on the potential coming of the Apocalypse, as indicated by current conflicts in the Middle East. The July 26 edition of CNN's Live From ... featured a nine-minute segment in which anchor Kyra Phillips discussed the Apocalypse and the Middle East with Christian authors Jerry Jenkins and Joel C. Rosenberg -- who share the view that the Rapture is nigh. At one point in the discussion, Phillips asked Rosenberg whether she needed "to start taking care of unfinished business and telling people that I love them and I'm sorry for all the evil things I've done," to which Rosenberg replied: "Well, that would be a good start." Throughout the segment, the onscreen text read: "Apocalypse Now?"

http://mediamatters.org/items/200607270001

[Selatius]

1. Corporate news media is trying to reinvigorate Bush's voting base

They need to marshal as much supporters to the polls as possible in order to make the elections close, which would be easier to manipulate if so.

[wanpete]

2. and kyra phillips is just the "journalist" to to this. She is a flaming

rethug!

[SeveneightyWhoa]

3. I saw this.

It was absolutely ridiculous, to say the least.