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carnivorousplant
03-19-2011, 09:53 PM
CNN's theme for programming about the Japanese earthquake is "The Sleeping Giant Awakes".
You've got to work really hard to come up with something this tacky. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto%27s_sleeping_giant_quote)
Sakuma Drops
03-19-2011, 10:15 PM
You've got to work really hard to come up with something this tacky. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto%27s_sleeping_giant_quote)Be glad they didn't go with their first title idea, "Godzilla Pachinko Tentacle Porn".

But yeah, well done, CNN.
Sailboat
03-19-2011, 10:21 PM
Concur. That's not quite as bad as, say, a headline about a hypothetical nephew born in Justice Clarence Thomas' family coming out "Uncle Tom," but it's pretty bad.
Johnny L.A.
03-19-2011, 11:13 PM
Was this on the Internet? On a TV segment? I've been on cnn.com several times today and didn't see it. I haven't had CNN on TV today except for ten minutes just now.
carnivorousplant
03-20-2011, 09:39 AM
Was this on the Internet? On a TV segment? I've been on cnn.com several times today and didn't see it. I haven't had CNN on TV today except for ten minutes just now.

Television, whatever program is on before The Situation Room, I believe. They also called the 1984 Winter Olympics in Yugoslavia "Set Your Sights on Sarajevo. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria)"
Beware of Doug
03-20-2011, 09:47 AM
Be glad they didn't go with their first title idea, "Godzilla Pachinko Tentacle Porn".How about "At 2:46pm We Slept"?
don't ask
03-20-2011, 09:54 AM
You're talking about the modern "entertainment" style news services. I'm surprised no-one covered the tsunami with a soundtrack like this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5D07c0dJuQ)
Johnny L.A.
03-20-2011, 10:00 AM
I'm surprised no-one covered the tsunami with a soundtrack like this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5D07c0dJuQ)

More like a parody of this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgeI0NeOjhI).

Tsunami, Oh, oh!
Tsunami, look at it go!
Grab your boards, come down to the bay
We'll ride a tsunami today...
Walmarticus
03-20-2011, 10:57 AM
On the front page (http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/19/japan.activist.survivor/index.html?hpt=C2).

What is tact?
don't ask
03-20-2011, 10:59 AM
Tsunami, Oh, oh!

I'll be stealing this.