I thought Jessica Lynch was retired.

I see the cable news channels in the gym. They look like crap, either sensationalism or licking their chops that maybe some minor event is harbinger of doom.

The last time I tuned into the audio was when ISIS had started expanding and refugees were fleeing. The announcer said "among all the tens of thousands of refugees, one face stands out." They litterally had found the one blond teenage girl among the refugees. They have a bizarre fetish for blond teenage girls, esp if they get abducted or in peril. I actually thought as it started, well they can't make this story about teenage girls. They sure as the devil did. I found it embarrassing even to watch.

You're so right... CNN, like most of the other new outlets, wants to create or at least shape the news rather than report it. I guess we've forgotten the definition of news *reporting*.

CNN hasn't been a news organization since Ted sold it to Time Warner in '96. Before that, they reported the news instead of creating it.

And yet they wonder why they have no audience left...

Not surprising. This is typical of CNN. They have done this sort of thing with regards to Israel for a long time.