Good boys and girls abhor violence, but...
I kid, but I do recognize Pinsky is in an awkward position. I'm not clear what the law student is doing there. Maybe he was there to offer superficially patriotic blather about how children need to transcend or avoid certain distressing emotions and just study hard so they can go to Yale like him, or to kill time before the psychologist was on so she wouldn't have too much screen time in the segment lest she discuss something awkward.
If any CNN staffers were twiddling their thumbs prior to Operation Kill OBL, clearly this isn't the case this week. Kill OBL has been a productivity bonanza for the network:
- Navy SEALS, 'quiet pros', got bin Laden
- Military families on bin Laden's death
- Bin Laden celebrations 'overboard'?
- Will the Taliban make peace now?*
- 7 questions after bin Laden's death
- Maps: The bin Laden compound
- Why bin Laden was buried at sea
- How U.S. forces killed bin Laden
How bin Laden's body was identified
tech
- Bin Laden's death sets Twitter record
- Osama Facebook page goes viral
- Pakistani tweeted bin Laden raid
- Poll: How Obama fares in 2012
- President Obama: Juggler-in-chief
- Photos: The tense, final moments
- The father of U.S. Islamophobia
- Can the U.S. trust Pakistan?
- U.S. anticipates 'threats of retaliation'
Obeidallah: Bin Laden, Islamophobia
- Glick: Child asks: Are the wars over?
- Faddis: Can U.S. trust Pakistan?
- Chaffetz: Time to leave Afghanistan
- Victim's dad: I'm not celebrating
- Borger: Bin Laden killing long-planned
Fans united by patriotism
Why young people cheer this death
Poll: Most Americans say bin Laden in Hell
Pakistan students doubt bin Laden dead [video]
*Why the onus is on the Taliban to make peace, as opposed to on the US to leave, is not explored. In fact Hillary Clinton saying "you'll never defeat us" sounds like she's saying we'll be there forever.
Labels: journalism, society, terrorism, The Security State
posted by Jonathan Versen @ 7:34 PM
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Excuse me while I retch. That nicely-barbered little Yalie with the spiffy tie telling us 9/11 made him into a better person was truly revoting. Now he wants to go out and do stuff to--I mean, for--his fellow man, with the implication, I guess, that maybe it was a GOOD thing. So heart-warming. And the anchor and the shrink soulfully discussing how to justify homicide to the kiddies. Of course, one would never suggest they examine whether the executive can--or should--be permitted to kill without consultation, let alone trial. If this is the level of discourse on the "news," I think I made the right decision in never watching it.
Hi Mimi,
Yeah, the law student seemed to be there to 'network' and promote himself. Like I said, I wondered if he was there to take up space in the segment, going on the assumption the producer only allotted a certain number of minutes to the topic of how to discuss this with your kids, and maybe they were afraid the psychologist, whose presence seemed more relevant to me, might give some awkward examples of questions kids might have.
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