CNN Will Turn This Oil Spill Into A Winner-less Pros/Cons Debate After All!

[meegbear]

Television’s best channel CNN simply cannot breathe in this environment, where the only truthful way to cover the oil spill is to make it all negative, all the time. Is that really *news*? Everyone at CNN knows that something only qualifies as “news” when one side says it’s a bad thing, while the other necessarily says it’s good for America. Can CNN 50/50-ize this likely worst-in-a-generation event into a proper “news” story? They’re gonna try, apparently, sometime after 4:00 this afternoon!

A CNN producer sent out this email yesterday to some secret pundit e-mail job board, we assume (?), and now everyone is appropriately making fun of CNN:

1) Summary: The Good Side of the Oil Spill

Name: Gary Hewing (CNN)
Category: Biotech and Healthcare

Media Outlet: CNN

Deadline: 04:00 PM EST - 2 June

Query: Looking for pitches: The Good Side of the Oil Spill - if there is any.

So everyone check out CNN today to watch Paul Begala and Bill Bennett debate the pros and cons of the worst oil spill in American history, a natural disaster that will destroy every animal and $100 billion industry on the Gulf Coast of America for the next generation or three.

http://wonkette.com/415760/cnn-will-turn-this-oil-spill-into-a-winner-less-proscons-debate-after-all#more-415760#ixzz0pjBxsH00

If anybody sees this, please post it!

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1. Like Jon Stewert said last night, there is good news

that we still have a shit load of oil under the surface.

[KittyWampus]

2. let's do a Pros/Cons of turning off that crap for go, ey?