You saw it on CNN first … but that’s all

Look! It’s CNN, broadcast journalism at its vacuous best, the cable channel “where new pictures and information are arriving all the time …” And not telling me a damn thing.

New pictures “arrived” at CNN just after 9 a.m. Tuesday — helicopter video of a derailment in Brooks, Kentucky (see AP story). We now take you to the transcript of the “reportage” accompanying that first, “dramatic” flush of video.

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