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CNN's Planet in Peril Game
2007-10-31
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

#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  

#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  

#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  

#4  CNN's PLANETRATINGS IN PERIL GAME.
There, fixed it.
Posted by: doc   2007-10-31 15:14  

#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  

#2  7200 points -- Lietenant Hard level
Posted by: badanov   2007-10-31 06:45  

#1  With that headline, Tibor, I thought CNN and Will Wright were collaborating. Oops.
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2007-10-31 01:32  

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