CNN Watch: Shameless Exploitation

Personally, I have problems with even the world "anniversary" when it comes to the events of September 11, 2001. In my mind, the word is assocaited with celebration, as in "wedding anniversary," where the event commerated is a happy event.

September 11th was anything but.

But the media has seized upon the fifth year after our grand national disaster and decided to use if for and excuse to air a mess of exploititive broadcasting. Casting aside the obvious, I'd like to point you too CNN's rebroadcasting of their September 11, 2001 coverage in real time. They're doing this, it seems, to promote their new pay-per-view online product: CNN Pipline.

CNN should be ashamed of itself. By using this event to promote their own products, they've effectively taken the horror and shock of that day and turned it into a commercial.