Anyone watching CNN on Saturday probably witnessed the pulse-pounding, nail-biting broadcast focused on a reef off of the coast of Hawaii, awaiting the destructive forces of a tsunami. Rarely has there been a broadcast so packed with intensity and urgency about such a life-altering issue of world concern. In fact, I can only think of the following several instances of breaking news that CNN covered as well as this one:
- President Obama’s Shoes Untied, Trip and Fall Expected
- Will Spelling Bee Semi-Finalists Misspell a Word?
- The Exciting World of Pi to 10,000 Digits
- The Toyota Recall: Important Technical Jargon that You Must Know or You Might Die!
- The Cure For Cancer – We Watch Scientists Look at Things in Microscopes
- Records Being Broken: How Long Can One Man Stand Still and Will He Get into the Guinness Book?
- Words That Begin With A – Part 1 of a 26-Part Series
- Breaking News: Paint Drying
Thank you, CNN, for being our source for timely, pressing, breaking news!
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And, one cannot forget the time they covered the breaking news of Octomom getting a nose job.
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Twitter: VerdantDude
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Tsunami? More like Tsnoozenami.
(This awful little joke in no way means that I am belittling the loss of lives from any other tsunamis. Just this one.)
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Twitter: Jayman3768
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MSNBC is still showing that shot of Hilo Bay with their announcers insisting that the tsunami is going to hit at any moment.
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My mom lives there and when I called her in a panic she was returning from a golf game and getting ready for a dinner party later that evening. Her biggest worry, “They sounded the tsunami warning at 6:00 am and woke us up.”
I guess it’s good to be prepared, but ya, as usual the media makes a mountain out of mole hill.
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This post should win a Pulitzer! Or something, ’cause it is awesome.
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This is what I like about not having cable – I hear about all of the “disasters” like tsunami and Tiger Woods after they’re over and the bloggy world is laughing at them.
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Did they cover the ‘Vancover needs snow for the Winter Olympics’ genius? If not, they have nothing on the BBC.
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Twitter: karlerikson
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And who can forget Balloon Boy? That was riveting shit.
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Twitter: hellohahanarf
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it was almost as if they were sad that hawaii didn’t get crushed by a wall of water. fuckers.
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I was in Hawaii a month ago….. I am bigger than any tsunami. Stupid reporters.
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I watched the time lapse photography of the big waves, they actually covered a small strip of sandbar for a few minutes. Talk about scary! Of course, I think they did a special episode of the biggest loser and did a full cast synchronized cannonball to create the same effect.
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Twitter: msmegan
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My favorite part was when the anchor was talking to the tourists and kept asking if they were scared and they kept saying “no.” She was so perplexed. It was AWESOME.
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Sooo glad I didn’t watch any coverage. Our local news acts that stupid any time we gt snow or anything else.
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Did you hear about the earthquake in Chili? That was last week. Do you know if they showed stuff on that on CNN?
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Not since Geraldo Rivera’s hour long special exposing Al Capone’s TOTALLY EMPTY vault have I been so enthralled.
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Who hosted the tsunami? Geraldo Rivera?
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Twitter: themuskrat
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glad i didn’t watch it…i had twitter, which told me it was a non-story.
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ahhh CNN…
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Twitter: elizabethbarone
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Ugh. Everyone was on Twitter panicking, “tsunami” and “Hawaii” were trending, so I figured a tsunami had hit Hawaii. Nope. It just might hit Hawaii, and it might hit a few other countries. People really need to relax.
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Twitter: poppycede
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Thanks for mocking me. You’re an awesome friend.
I really was very scared for the world. Dawg was sleeping off his overnight vollies shift and I had the hardest time not waking him up… so I finally did just so I could cuddle with him. Funny how I let things get super big in my mind until I have a Dawg to talk me down.
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Twitter: Halushki
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Meh. Hawaii. Like a good continental Amerikun, I’ll believe it exists when I see it on tv under ten feet of water.
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A bunch of the military bases went into lockdown so no one could leave/enter the bases, and my buddy went into labor. Luckily, she got to the hospital before the tsunami hit
. It’s a boy!
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