News Corp Explosion: CNN Reacts

CNN clamored into breaking news mode over reports of an explosion at the News Corp headquarters in New York this morning. At first CNN thought Fox News was the target of the attack. Fox News is based in News Corp's Broadway headquarters.

CNN dropped the breaking banner when one of their producers reported, "there are about 100 people outside waiting to go into their offices...but no stretchers with people on them." And while the producer was describing how Fox News wasn't destroyed, CNN anchor Heidi Collins couldn't resist blurting out, "Oh!" Next time the control room producers need to cut her microphone!

Comments

[insanityfollows]

08:53 AM on 12/21/2007

If it had really happened, most of us probably wouldn't have noticed. Fox is not a player-they front propaganda-kind of like Pravda used to do in the USSR. (And those IDIOTS on Fox & Friends-nauseating!)

[LNWells]

01:40 PM on 12/20/2007

Hey - I want to know what happened with Cheney's office being on fire?!?!
Were subpeoned documents burned? Or was 24hrs too long to hold this thought in our mind.

[wellplantedfoot]

05:24 AM on 12/19/2007

Libruls....LOL now that's really funny!!

[wadenelson1]

10:46 PM on 12/18/2007

Bystanders immediately started a bucket brigade but quickly ran out of garden hose needed to siphon the tanks of nearby cars and trucks.

[wadenelson1]

09:47 PM on 12/18/2007

Bystanders reportedly started a bucket brigade but quickly ran out of the garden hoses being used to siphon nearby cars and trucks.

[vale409]

07:24 PM on 12/18/2007

Was that Fox exploding or.......... imploding?

[Spinsterina]

05:51 PM on 12/18/2007

O'Reilly's rechargeable vibrator probably overheated and set off a chain reaction: Methane + Loofah + Friction = KABOOM!

[Destin]

03:29 PM on 12/18/2007

mmmmmmmm, Heidi. Definitely one of the hotter newsbabes on television today. Now, what was she reporting about again??

[lungfish]

03:47 AM on 12/18/2007

This was a self-induced implosion. It started with all the spinning... and then the hot air combined with the bigotry added mass and momentum...and the counter forces caused by the claims of not spinning were nearly adequate to stabilize the event horizon which was all good, everything was rotating outward and flying away from the center - imagine a galaxy rotating nicely...
But beginning just after the first Cheney epoch the central mass of the system was unbalanced by lies and falsifications and inconsistencies which increased the central mass and offset the claims of not spinning that were keeping the system stable..and when the commentary of Bill OReilly, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, and Rush Limbaugh and other right wing "pundits" reached a critical point it further offset the balance between outward spin and inward compression.
As the central mass increased with the weight of ultraconservative rightwing religious folks an attaction the compression continued moving towards the creation of a singularity. Finally, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and HuffPO poster Brightstar actually contributed enough mass to cause the creation of a singularity which attracted all the hot air and gas from Limbaugh, OReilly, and a host of others back into itself. The spin and backlash from the Cheney Administration and combined with not only the GOP but the Dems, in fact all of Congress fed the singularity until it shrank down to the size of a pinhead... with a mass many trillion times that of Bill Clintons blow job until it detonated and blew up Fox news leaving only a small brown dwarf which immediately blamed it all on secular liberalism.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

11:23 PM on 12/17/2007

FOX News reports that libruls can't even get an attack on their headquarters right.

[plages]

11:02 PM on 12/17/2007

Run for your lives, the sky is falling, or could it be another wolf calling?

[DontSpin]

10:40 PM on 12/17/2007

What? I don't get it. What is the outrage about exactly?

[Snowball]

09:23 PM on 12/17/2007

Fox News blows up? It must have been the combination of hot air and noxious gas being expelled from its hosts on a daily basis. Such a combination can be highly combustible. Thank goodness no human beings were in harms way.

[BWonka]

09:20 PM on 12/17/2007

Call me when Fox IM-plodes.

[ErnestineBass]

08:42 PM on 12/17/2007

Musta been quite a bummer for CNN.

To think, if only for a moment, that THEY might become the "Center for Non-News...