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2007-10-31 Science & Technology

Here's my game. Guess what this CNN series is about:

(a) the Existential Threat to the West of Radical Islam;
(b) a Gigantic Meteor Hurtling Towards Earth; or
(c) the Black Market Trade in Endangered Species.

Haven't watched the accompanying series, but I have heard the ominous theme music. It's an Anderson Cooper thing, so I'm sure meticulous fact-checking will accompany his condescending sneer/scowl, just like it did with his post-Katrina reporting.

Posted by Tibor 2007-10-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 With that headline, Tibor, I thought CNN and Will Wright were collaborating. Oops.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-10-31 01:32|| 2007-10-31 01:32|| Front Page Top

#2 7200 points -- Lietenant Hard level

Posted by badanov 2007-10-31 06:45|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2007-10-31 06:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Modern ~~News~~ Entertainment industry survives on selling fear. Blood and guts in print or on the screen at 10. They caught on to why people 'pay' to go to movies to watch scary things or variations of sadomasochistic treatment of their fellow man. It's the modern version of the Roman Circus. These producers would have been jolly clowns during the Dark Ages and the Plagues when things really were bad. Oh, wait, the Church[tm] had that monopoly back then to use the world around them to rationalize their power and the need for people to blindly obey them. Never mind.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-10-31 09:23|| 2007-10-31 09:23|| Front Page Top

#4 CNN's ~~PLANET~~RATINGS IN PERIL GAME.
There, fixed it.

Posted by doc 2007-10-31 15:14|| 2007-10-31 15:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Most likely not about (a). Probably some PC thingee such as (c). (b) is off-limits; don't want to create an Orson Wells "War of the Worlds" debacle and have people jumping off roofs. CNN doesn't have enough lawyers for that.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-10-31 16:17|| 2007-10-31 16:17|| Front Page Top

#6 p2k, indeed. Put another way, this is Fire in Tonawanda, Film at 11, writ large.

Posted by phil_b 2007-10-31 18:11|| 2007-10-31 18:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Y'all worry about Tonawanda down there on the other side of the world, phil_b?

Posted by trailing wife 2007-10-31 19:17|| 2007-10-31 19:17|| Front Page Top

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