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From: Tenchusatsu4/10/2020 2:49:15 PM
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Tenchu's Thoughts: Why This CBS News Story is Garbage

I happened to catch this video on my YouTube feed:



First of all, take a look at what Gayle King is wearing:



Those glasses look like something Elton John donated to a thrift shop, but also notice her crop top and her exposed belly. WTF is that? It's unprofessional, and it's downright cringeworthy.

(And yes, this is the same Gayle King who just HAD to mention that Kobe Bryant is a "rapist" after the basketball legend died in a tragic helicopter crash.)

Second, and more importantly, look at the aerial screenshot of the mass grave site that CBS News wants to "let sink in."



Clearly this photo was composed in a way that made it look like Auschwitz or some other Nazi concentration camp.

The problem? That is a photo of Hart Island, which has been used as a mass burial site for over 150 years by the local government of NYC:

Hart Island (Bronx)
The remains of more than one million people are buried on Hart Island, though since the first decade of the 21st century, there are fewer than 1,500 burials a year. Burials on Hart Island include individuals who were not claimed by their families or did not have private funerals; the homeless and the indigent; and mass burials of disease victims.
Not once did the CBS News story mention that fact. They make viewers like me assume that the digging of mass graves like this one is unprecedented.

The fact that there are a flood of new bodies being sent there is indeed news, and it does highlight how hard the coronavirus epidemic is hitting New York City.

But even serious news can be exaggerated and twisted by journalistic sensationalism, and I for one think CBS News should be held accountable for stunts like this.

Tenchusatsu
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