CNN ‘postpones’ documentary on ‘Iran Goes Nuclear.’

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/06/cnn-postpones-documentary-on-iran-goes-nuclear/

CNN ‘postpones’ documentary on ‘Iran Goes Nuclear.’

Variety reports:

The latest National Intelligence Estimate concluding that Iran discontinued its nuclear weapons program four years ago has claimed one casualty: CNN has postponed speculative documentary “We Were Warned — Iran Goes Nuclear.”

The two-hour spec, which was slated for Dec. 12 under the “CNN Presents” banner, was “set partially in the future,” featuring a what-if scenario as former government officials — playing fictional cabinet members — debate how to deal with the Iranian threat.

That special was “based on a different set of rules and a different set of conditions,” said CNN veep-senior exec producer Mark Nelson, noting that the surprising NIE report “changed everything.”

[truebrit71]

1. Hahahahahahahahaha!!!

:rofl:

That's classic!!!

All ready to beat the war drums like the good little presstitutes they are and then had the rug pulled out from under them...

[TwilightGardener]

2. Idiots. Their fiction would look ridiculous now.

[mike_c]

3. they'll roll it out again in a few months....

Count on it. All state propaganda, all the time.

[fascisthunter]

4. CNN is Such a Solid News Outlet

:sarcasm:

[lapfog_1]

5. "speculative documentary"

aka propaganda.

[frazzled]

6. "speculative" documentary?

I'll say.

I bet they threw that word "speculative" in at the last moment. In the grand CNN tradition, this was not documentary at all.

[KansDem]

12. "Specumentary"

New word and concept for the Whoreth Estate...

[originalpckelly]

14. Either that or a spocumentary.

:P

[AlCzervik]

7. Bwwwwwwaaaaa!

[Bumblebee]

8. Wow, that was another GOP 2008 election "brick," I am sure

CNN was only too glad to oblige.

[I_Will]

9. “based on a different set of rules and a different set of conditions,”

And I thought *we* were accused of parsing and too much nuance. :rofl:

"Rules and Conditions". No reference to truth or vigilance or sense of duty as a member of the Fourth Estate.

Pathetic, but revealing.

[bullimiami]

10. war mongering sensationalist assholes. i hate cnn.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

11. WTF is a speculative documentary! JeebusF'nChristo!

Asshats posing as a news source. Damn :mad: :puke:

[shraby]

13. Speculative documentary...,more commonly

know as science fiction.

[Bitwit1234]

15. CNN--- Investigative reporting at it's best.

Investigated the whole damn thing all they way to the white house and cheney and bush.

[originalpckelly]

16. I want MY FEAR PORN!

:grr:

"Scare the fuck out of me! Harder! Harder! Yes, I'm shaking! Oh God I'm scared! Yes! Yes! Yes!"

"I'll have what he's having."

[orleans]

17. those FUCKING ASSHOLES! helping to drumbeat another goddamn war!

i bet they were creaming just thinking how ratings would go through the ceiling if there was another motherfucking war for them to report on/jack up

jesus christ! this "news" channel is SO FOR SHIT! i am outraged to hear there was such a thing in the works.

[kestrel91316]

18. OMG, poor CNN!!!! They aren't going to be able to

beat the drums of war in the leadup to Bush's attack!!!!

:rofl:

[malaise]

19. Looks like not only Bushco got it wrong

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! And those CNN hacks have the nerve to challenge liars like Bolton. Looks like they bought the crap hook, line and sinker. I love moments like these. :rofl:

[Imagevision]

20. CNN "Keeping them honest" one notch behind FAUXnews

[donheld]

21. Oh poor CNN, all that planning and working

for government propaganda only to have the truth poo-poo their warhawkish hopes and dreams. :cry::sarcasm:

[spanone]

22. Bwahahahahaaa....how about 'Iran Doesn't Go Nuclear, but bu$h* is a Fucking Idiot'

[Scurrilous]

23. LOL

From the comments:


3. Sell it to Faux, they have no concept of truth or reality.

10. They can always have Lou Dobbs star in a documentary entitled “We Were Warned - The U.S. Goes Nachos”.

11. Can’t they just dub in “Syria”?

28. Maybe they should play the movie about the battle of Thermopolis over and over and over again.
Xerxes was a really bad guy, a Persian, and he might be scheming to nuke the Spartans…

[Supersedeas]

24. need to re-formulate the packaged propoganda