Suspicious White Powder Found In CNN Mailroom

The Denver Channel ^ | Posted: 8:34 a.m. EDT June 19, 2002

[RoughDobermann]

Envelope With No Return Address Found Tuesday

ATLANTA -- Tests are being done on an envelope containing a suspicious white powder that was found at the CNN Center in downtown Atlanta.

A mailroom at the Cable News Network was evacuated for an hour Tuesday after an employee found the envelope.

Phillip Evans, a spokesman for Turner Broadcasting System, says fewer than 15 employees were in the mailroom when the envelope was found.

He says the letter was addressed to CNN and did not specify an individual person or have a return address.

Atlanta police and fire employees removed the envelope for testing.

Stacey Hoffman, the director of risk communication for the Georgia Division of Public Health, said results of the tests should be known this morning.

[RoughDobermann]

I searched but didn't find this posted anywhere.

[AdA$tra]

FROM THE DESK OF TED TURNER:

Dang, they found my cocaine.

[xJones]

What's suspicious about white pouder being found anywhere in CNN? Their reporters probably snort it all the time.

[dighton]

Idiots, that's Turner's coke.

[Quilla]

From the way they twist things over at CNN, I've always assumed the place was inundated with suspicious white powder.

[Semper Paratus]

Ted Turner forget to pick up his nose candy?

[skateman]

Oh, Ted, we found your stash........

[Blood of Tyrants]

I have heard that anthrax is NOT white. The mailman probably dropped his coke stash in his mailbag.

[TomGuy]

He says the letter was addressed to CNN and did not specify an individual person or have a return address.

Uh huh, it was probably addressed to Ted Turner.

[Quilla]

This many identical interpretations doesn't bode well for the Clinton News Network.

[DoughtyOne]

The tide is certainly not Turnering...

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

Quilla, you took the words right out of my mouth!

[Orangedog]

TED TURNER, CALL YOUR OFFICE!

[Gunner9mm]

It's probably Ted Turner's brain.

[SGCOS]

What's going on at CNN? It should be called European American powder.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

suspicious white powder

I know the dictionary allows use of the word suspicious to mean 'suspect', or 'deserving of suspicion', but it's still ambigious. I'm imagining this anthropomorphized white powder sitting there, suspicious of everyone. The ambiguity is evident in the following sentence.

That white powder is suspicious; I'm suspicious.

Am I the suspect one, or am I doing the suspecting? Yeah, I know, context is everything. Of course, white powder is inanimate, and has no feelings to be hurt, but still...

Actually, my main rant is that it's the LOCATION of the white powder that makes it suspect (or suspicious). Suspiciousness is not an objectively measured quality of anything. Use of the word suspicious is superfluous in this article, given the context, and unobjective besides. It's like saying 'creepy white guy found in mail room'.

But then, that doesn't stop the media. They use the word 'allegedly' for their own purposes (new, tangential rant). For example: 'Racist pig right-wing extremist wacko ALLEGEDLY blew up a building yesterday.' Using 'allegedly' here is like trying to rationalize eating two Big Macs by drinking a diet soda instead of a regular one.

What can I say, my mother was an English major.

[alley cat]

Oh, please!! Finding "white powder" is soooo six months ago!

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

I have heard that anthrax is NOT white.

Now, now, mind your PC manners! We call them 'biological weapons of color' now. And they're already working on changing weapons to something less inflammatory. 'Life-cessation devices' or some such.

[MotherSpector]

Someone probably left a little coke for Wolf Blitzer.

[Paul Atreides]

It's the dead skin off Carville's scalp.