Why Does CNN Need to go to the Smoking Gun for OFFICIALLY RELEASED DOCs?

[berni_mccoy]

Don't they have their OWN servers?

They just showed on the Situation Room GOING to the Smoking Gun website... I know it's great for the Smoking Gun, but aren't these documents available to CNN directly?

[Rick Myers]

1. Lazy producers, too young to know what news is...

[chelsea0011]

2. Because they are lazy?

[valerief]

3. So they can play 'the Blame Game' if they have to later?

[DS1]

4. Maybe it's REALLY dry humor

Get it? Smoking gun?

[hwmnbn]

5. wow, that is a stretch.....

a lovely one, but a stretch nonetheless. :rofl:

[NYCGirl]

6. Because it shows they're hip and cutting edge.

:sarcasm:

[SoCalDem]

7. Because they are too cheap to have their own investigators

and too lazy.. They just have their young interns "surf the net" and put it on the air:(

[hunter]

8. Okay. The "press" in the United States is officially dead.

Long live the internet.
:scared:

[warrens]

9. Some documents are easier to find than others

Smoking Gun is brilliant at what they do. Keeping an eye on them is a lot easier than replicating all their work. CNN COULD just print the docs out and pretend they found it themselves.

When you have a bunch of stories breaking all the time, having a resource like SG is a great thing. Heck, I've gotten leads off LBN here...there's a lotta stuff out there, and only 24 hours in a day.

[lonestarnot]

10. Lazy bastids!