CNN slammed for airing Luther Vandross documentary after New Orleans terror attack: ‘So disrespectful’

NY Post ^ | 01/02/2025 | Ariel Zilber

[ChicagoConservative27]

CNN sparked outrage after it aired a two-hour documentary about the late singer Luther Vandross instead of offering continuing coverage of the aftermath of the New Year’s Day terrorist attack in New Orleans that took place hours earlier.

“Biggest act of terrorism on US soil in almost a decade and @CNN in primetime is airing a 2 hour documentary on Luther Vandross,” Wall Street Journal editor-at-large Gerard Baker wrote on his X social media account.

Baker added three clown emojis to emphasize the point.

Tom Sileo, an author and former copy editor at CNN, said the decision by his former network not to postpone the airing of the documentary was “insane.”

[ChicagoConservative27]

Demented. But if the guy driving the truck had a MAGA hat on...

[ronnie raygun]

Better that we dont hear thier bullsh## and commentary who listens anyway

[rktman]

cnn-disrespectful..........and?

[kiryandil]

Wall Street Journal editor-at-large Gerard Baker wrote on his X social media account.

I guess nobody told Gerard Baker that the US Gaslight Media was handed its pink slip in the November election...

[Bob434]

News at 11:00... CNN is disrespectful

[HonkyTonkMan]

Proof people will bitch about anything.

[Brian Griffin]

Information is gathered over time.

In this case there are major gaps.

People get tired of hearing the same few facts over and over.

If new information comes in, a program can be captioned.

[BenLurkin]

“Disrespectful isn’t the word. It is downright sinister.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Exactly. I’d rather see a Luther Vandross special than to hear their “experts” “analyze” the terrorist attacks. In fact, I wish CNN would go off the air, but until that happens, I’m OK with them running Luther Vandross specials.

[GaltAdonis]

I suppose that the politically correct American way to be is to live in a
perpetual state of grievance, mourning, fear and dread.
Anything else is “unpatriotic” as well as in bad taste. Right?

[bobbo666]

This was a good thing.

Had CNN siad anything they would have lied and defended him — and condemned inslamophobia.

[HonkyTonkMan]

No kidding. They dug up a former employee to complain about a documentary. Hilarious really.

[Red Badger]

I’m surprised someone noticed................

[Thomas Jerome]

Me too.

[Rappini]

It’s beyond me how everyone gets annoyed with the media and most of the Demorats. We were told years ago that the communists were going to infiltrate various aspects of our society media being one of them and nobody believed them.