# Is CNN Running Out of Teens? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 12, 2013, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cnn-running-out-of-teens/652701 "2013-03-12T13:08:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cnn-running-out-of-teens/652701/1 "2013-03-12T13:08:41Z")
The following separate headlines are on CNN’s news page right now: **Teens Killed when SUV Flips into Pond** **Teens Killed after SUV Flips into Pond** **Teen Tragedy: 5 Die in Fiery Texas Crash** A video link: **5 Teens Die in Fiery Crash** Most popular story right now: **5 Teens Die in Fiery Collision with Truck** And yesterday the leading headline was about SIX Teens dying. That’s horrible…_are there any teenagers left?_ ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cnn-running-out-of-teens/652701/2 "2013-03-12T13:37:52Z")
I hope so. We need them to grow up and pay Social Security. ---
**Author:** ![smee\_goan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@smee\_goan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smee_goan)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cnn-running-out-of-teens/652701/3 "2013-03-12T14:45:14Z")
2 teens escaped the “Submarine Warren, OH”, 6 did not. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cnn-running-out-of-teens/652701/4 "2013-03-12T14:48:11Z")
I don’t want to see a video of 5 teens dying in a fiery crash. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cnn-running-out-of-teens/652701/5 "2013-03-12T14:51:58Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > That’s horrible…_are there any teenagers left?_ I think teenagers need to avoid SUVs for a few weeks until this stops. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cnn-running-out-of-teens/652701/6 "2013-03-12T16:13:26Z")
And CNN, for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cnn-running-out-of-teens/652701/7 "2013-03-12T16:42:50Z")
Especially since it was just down the road from me. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cnn-running-out-of-teens/652701/8 "2013-03-12T17:57:09Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I don’t want to see a video of 5 teens dying in a fiery crash. ☹ I hate video links too. Just let me READ how they died in a fiery crash, dammit. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cnn-running-out-of-teens/652701/9 "2013-03-12T18:04:51Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I hate video links too. Just let me READ how they died in a fiery crash, dammit. I imagine the actual crash wasn’t filmed (at least, I hope it wasn’t, though that’s what it sounds like from CNN’s description.) But I don’t think I’d want to watch the video anyway. ---
**Author:** ![JLRogers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@JLRogers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JLRogers)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cnn-running-out-of-teens/652701/10 "2013-03-13T11:27:17Z")
I haven’t watched it in weeks. Have they stopped the nonstop raging about _deadly killer **murderguns** that spray thousands of rounds per second from the hip_ yet? ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cnn-running-out-of-teens/652701/11 "2013-03-13T11:36:54Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I hate video links too. Just let me READ how they died in a fiery crash, dammit. God yes. When did this moronic trend for every snippet of news on the web to come in video format come about, and more importantly why? I want to read a news story at my own pace (which is probably a hell of a lot faster than the simpleton reading an Autocue), and I want to be able to glance at it while I’m doing something else, not wait for a video to load, wait to skip past the inevitable ad for debt relief or painkillers, then turn the sound up on my PC (not usually desirable if you share an office). We can READ. Idiots. ---
**Author:** ![JLRogers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@JLRogers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JLRogers)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cnn-running-out-of-teens/652701/12 "2013-03-13T11:43:46Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > God yes. When did this moronic trend for every snippet of news on the web to come in video format come about, and more importantly why? > > _\_ > > the inevitable ad for debt relief or painkillers Congratulations. You just fought your own ignorance. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![J-P\_L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/j-p_l/32/3156_2.png) [@J-P\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J-P_L)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cnn-running-out-of-teens/652701/13 "2013-03-13T19:40:41Z")
[QUOTE=Originally Posted by Colophon God yes. When did this moronic trend for every snippet of news on the web to come in video format come about, and more importantly why? [/QUOTE] When they put it in video form, if you want to see it, you have no choice but to look at the ad that will inevitably play first, you cannot ignore it like an ad on a web page.