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by melling 1559 days ago
I sort of lost hope for CNN after they asked if a jet could have disappeared in a black hole.

https://www.thewrap.com/cnns-don-lemon-asks-black-hole-could...

1 comments

I’m surprised this is what did it for you. The entire purpose of inviting guests to a show of this format is to ask the guest questions and have an interesting dialog. It would be more problematic in my opinion if the hosts offered their own answers to the questions without any qualifications, but that’s what often happens along with the rhetoric and logical fallacies.

Is it a stupid and ignorant question, yea. Did someone in the audience find it interesting, extremely likely.

The news is not supposed to be In Search of…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of..._(TV_series)

But I suppose there’s more money in that. What could go wrong with that attitude?