People are hoping and praying to somehow see loved ones alive, again...Who hires the jerks to work at CNN?

Question

Why would CNN have a would-be expert on saying that it is a myth that people can survive in a pocket of air in a submerged car? These people whose loved-ones are still missing in the Mississippi river need something to hold onto until the search for survivers resumes in the morning. They are very insensitve.

They know it is no time right now to be myth-busters. They just want to possibly say "I TOLD YOU SO"

Answer 1

The media knows all don't they? Each time there is a disaster they are there quicker than flies on s__t. Gotta get the story and to heck with people's feelings.

Ah, cowboy doc - reread the lady's question please. She is not the doomsayer, she is saying the media is.

Answer 2

Follow the money! Whatever the drive-by media believes will make them more advertising bucks is what they will push and to H*** with being sensitive to the feelings of friends and family! Before I went to bed last night the local ABC affiliate was claiming there were six confirmed deaths from the bridge collapse; this afternoon they are confirming only four!

"We're the first-est with the most-est," seems to be the mantra of all the liberal news outlets! "We can always go back and correct our info later, if necessary, or cover up our mistakes and inaccurate reporting, if we can manage to do so!"

I remember a movie several years ago that dealt with *oneupmanship*. This idea was very entertaining on the silver screen; but in today's dog-eat-dog, the "news" outlets have taken this concept to the extreme and to the tragic point of insensitive ridiculousness!

Who can forget the misinformation from the Presidential Election night of 2000? It didn't matter what Peter Jennings said, ABC got the info out first that Algore won Florida; so what if it was false? so what if he had to recant? so what if all the precincts in Florida's neck & neck, down to the wire, race hadn't closed yet? so what if the conservative voters in the western panhandle of Florida then felt hopeless and stayed home? so what if this made the Presidential election results even closer, in that mostly conservative State? so what if it threw the whole nation into uncertainly and confusion? so what if the rest of the world was laughing at us? so what if some terrorist group was so emboldened by the buffoons on our national news broadcasts that they decided they could get away with bombing the Twin Towers on 9/11? ABC got the story out first! That's *all* that matters!

Answer 3

Myth or not, what's wrong with giving people something to hang on to, or are you a doomsayer?

My son-in-law was working on that bridge, and another one was there along with my grandson. We appreciate the facts that someone gave us hope that they were O.K. not as you say "there's no hope"

And, "get a life" if a person lasted twenty minutes in a submerged car, that's twenty minutes to try and get out, isn't it?

Answer 4

It's true that nobody would survive in a submerged car. The air pocket would last for 20 minutes maybe.

Answer 5

All the news dished out to us is doctored. Its a load of crap never the real thing. There is no freedom of speech and no truth in anything. The world is full of cheats and liars taking the gullable ones for a ride to nowhere.

Answer 6

Why would you watch a channel that constantly misinforms and disinforms? Wake up, the major news channels say whatever popular opinion dictates, and creates disasters and tragedies out of everyday events when the 'news' is slow.

Answer 7

The news media in general is SUPER HYPED with reporting bad news............the worse the news is, the more thrilled they are. They are experts at dissecting each little tidbit of horror and gore. Whatever happened to honest and sensitive reporting? Yikes........

Answer 8

Turn the channel