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When you see CNN playing in airport terminals you’re actually watching a special version of the channel CNN produces just for airports. Is it just regular CNN with no mention at all of missing flights and aviation disasters when they occur. The network’s digital on-screen graphics are designed larger than industry standards, to allow readability […]
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CNN pays airports to show news on their TVs. It’s not normal CNN but a special version that excludes any stories about plane crashes.
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CNN has a tape recorded to broadcast as the end of the world is happening.
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CNN once had two reporters talk to each other via satellite while they were standing in the same parking lot. 00
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