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global1

(25,272 posts) Tue Mar 24, 2015, 10:52 AM Mar 2015

When Did CNN Turn Into The NTSB?.....

I turned on the TV this a.m. and learned of the terrible plane crash in France. What struck me is that CNN should have just been reporting the crash - but instead - they were trying to analyze why and how it happened. To me that is the responsibility of an agency like the NTSB or its European equivalent.

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When Did CNN Turn Into The NTSB?..... (Original Post) global1 Mar 2015 OP

Because people always want to know why plane crashes happen The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2015 #1

Because they need a plane crash to wildly speculate about. Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2015 #2

CNN has gone Full Speculation for a while now.....it is not news anymore, it is pure opinion. Fred Sanders Mar 2015 #3

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,869 posts)

1. Because people always want to know why plane crashes happen

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 10:55 AM

Mar 2015

and they don't want to wait for investigators to sort it out, which often takes a year or more. CNN does get a bit carried away, though.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,199 posts)

2. Because they need a plane crash to wildly speculate about.

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 10:57 AM

Mar 2015

Also, it's interesting when people die. Give us dirty laundry.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

3. CNN has gone Full Speculation for a while now.....it is not news anymore, it is pure opinion.

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Tue Mar 24, 2015, 11:21 AM

Mar 2015

The demise of CNN began long before it turned into Jeff Zucker's The Terror Channel.

"You are all going to die, and only Judeo-Christianity can save you!", is the news prime directive at CNN.

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