{"id":10568,"date":"2015-04-23T12:26:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T16:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=10568"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:04","slug":"cnn-coldhearted-news-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2015\/04\/cnn-coldhearted-news-network\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN: Coldhearted News Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, President Obama announced that U.S. drone strikes on an Al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan killed two hostages &#8212; one American and one Italian.\u00a0 His remarks were televised on several cable channels including CNN.\u00a0 At 10:30 am, CNN concluded their &#8220;Breaking News&#8221; coverage of the announcement and cut to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H-vkdUBNOOc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this commercial<\/a> for aircraft and &#8220;unmanned systems&#8221; manufacturer Northrup Grummon:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H-vkdUBNOOc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10630 size-full\" style=\"margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 45px; margin-bottom:30px;\" src=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/stealth.jpg\" alt=\"stealth\" width=\"560\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/stealth.jpg 560w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/stealth-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The airstrike was unfortunate and ill-timed, and so was this advertisement.\u00a0 CNN should add their apologies to those of President Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, President Obama announced that U.S. drone strikes on an Al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan killed two hostages &#8212; one American and one Italian.\u00a0 His remarks were televised on several cable channels including CNN.\u00a0 At 10:30 am, CNN concluded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2015\/04\/cnn-coldhearted-news-network\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10568"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28297,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568\/revisions\/28297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}