EVEN MORE BREAKING: Outdoor Marketing Campaign of Mass Destruction!

I think it's despicable that one Turner subsidiary creates a mass panic for cheap publicity and then another (CNN) also profits by breaking the story. Aren't there supposed to be journalistic ethical guidelines against news outlets manufacturing their own news? Doesn't that extend to the whole corporate enterprise? I think it would be fitting if the FCC temporarily suspended the licenses of both networks for a week or two. After all, if any publicity is good publicity, both networks need to take a big hit for the punishment to fit the crime. A couple of weeks of dead air should do the trick.

I think if Marty actually believes that one branch of Turner has any idea what the other is doing, he has a far, far higher opinion of the company than most of its investors do.

There's an epic battle approaching: common sense versus hysteria/political correctness. Common sense always loses that battle.

James, you seem to get it, and you at least have some sort of platform to talk back to all these self-important hacks, so please get this out there: the government and media are both being incredibly self-serving in even calling this a "hoax" or an attempt to CAUSE mass panic. They caused the mass panic. Why can't they just admit that and move on?

And frankly, the idea that this isn't funny is just wrong and ridiculous. It's very, very funny. And the fact that morons like Boston's mayor and the governor got so huffy about it makes it MORE funny. I wish these people were capable of just laughing at themselves for overreacting. It's no one's fault really. But instead, they have to save face, and so they will no doubt demand millions as well as charging two guys with felonies because THEY blew it.

Apparently, we now live in a society where anything the least bit odd or out of place needs to be presumptively put under a blast hood and detonated with explosives.

plunge,

I'll get right on that. But first I need to dismantle my kids' Lite Brite before the neighbors call Homeland Security.

Clearly we need to search the Earth for WLBs: Weapons of Lite Brite.