CNN Unveils 1st HDTV Documentary

[Poke]

CNN Unveils 1st HDTV Documentary

The program will air in October.
By Swanni

Washington, D.C. (July 15, 2007) -- CNN, which is scheduled to launch a High-Definition channel this September, has already unveiled an upcoming special in high-def.

The news network says it will premiere a two-part edition of Anderson Cooper 360 called Planet In Peril this October 23 in HD.

The four-hour program will also include commentary from CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Animal Planet's Jeff Corwin.

CNN says it will take viewers around the world examining four issues: climate change, vanishing habitats, disappearing species and human population growth.

"To tell this story, Anderson Cooper, Dr. Sanjay Gupta and biologist Jeff Corwin traveled to some of the most remote and remarkable places on Earth. From exposing illegal wildlife trading undercover in Southeast Asia to seeing first–hand the devastating effects of deforestation in Brazil, they have gathered evidence on the unsettling changes taking place all around us," CNN says at its web site.

The special is being shot in four different continents and 13 countries with high-def cameras, the network says. CNN is calling it the network's first high-def documentary.

DIRECTV has announced that it will carry CNN HD when it launches.

 

[Jim5506]

Good grief, another sky is falling story.

Are we that much more powerful than God? Or do we just think we are?

I guess when the current elevated level of solar activity subsides, we'll be bombarded with global cooling hysteria, like back in the 70's.

 

[AT&TDishman]

What no Wolf Blitzer and Lou Dobbs? I want to see all those illegal aliens coming across the border in HD with Lou shaking his head in disbelief, and Wolf telling us there is breaking news from Iraq that Sadam Hussein was behind the collapse of the Chicago Cubs in 1969!!!

 

[Cyclone]

While I recognize that Global Warming has its trendy following of "excited" activist, there are practical issues taking place.

When you cut down too many trees in the Amazon, the things that live in the tree dies. Over fish and a the popluation of that species can drop to a level too low to maintain itself. So while CNN is likely going with the Trendy aspect (they are TV infotainment, so this is their business), there are underlying truths here.

 

[harshness]

Is this from the same Swanni that predicted that CNN would go HD in 2005?

 

[8bitbytes]

Good grief, another sky is falling story.

Are we that much more powerful than God? Or do we just think we are?

I guess when the current elevated level of solar activity subsides, we'll be bombarded with global cooling hysteria, like back in the 70's.

Actually, global cooling will be worse because we will have stripped away all the "greenhouse gases" that supposedly caused all of the "global warming".

Whether that occurs soon enough to rebuild the ice barriers at the edge of the earth that keep the oceans from flowing off the edge is anyone's guess.

And before anyone mocks those ice barriers, I suggest you go discuss them with the folks on the Flat Earth Society forums and get "educated".