I haven't been blogging too much of late, as I have been trying to take a step back and reflect... but turns out that I just couldn't keep away. Today I saw something that really struck me as immoral, and I thought I'd share...
I was watching Larry King Live not too long ago (maybe 20 minutes), as I often do, and something caught my eye during the commercial break that was just out of place. CNN was running a self-promoting ad (not unusual) that was advocating their station as the leading source of breaking news. That did not bother me. What did bother me, however, were their choice of news clippings and images.
They included the twin towers. Smoking, burning, just before they fell.
The week after George Bush received all the negative publicity for using images of 9/11 in an advertisement, CNN took it upon itself to do the same. Using a national tragedy for personal promotion is questionable, and though I have enormous respect for CNN's News Broadcasting as a general rule, this ad turned me off a bit - not exactly what I expected from my leading source of mainstream news.
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