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Channel: Lulu Shyann Watchman On The Wall · 2015 · People & Blogs

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/doomsday-clock-moves-two-minutes-closer-to-midnight/

http://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2015/jan/06/cnn-end-of-the-world-doomsday-video

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/06/cnn-apocalypse-video-nearer-my-god-to-thee?view=mobile

 The apocalypse will be live: CNN's mythical end of the world video is real

Tuesday 6 January 2015 18.19 EST

The video CNN planned to air at the end of the world has leaked online thanks to the work of a former intern at the network, who posted the video on Gawker Media’s Jalopnik blog on Monday.

The video had passed into CNN lore by the time Mike Ballaban, now an editor with Jalopnik, worked as an intern at the network in 2009. As rumor had it, the billionaire founder of CNN, Ted Turner, a man as known for his eccentricities as for his wealth and media legacy, had called for the preparation of a video to air in the event of nuclear holocaust.

The legend has circulated for decades, boosted by Turner’s own words in June 1980, when he said, “We’re gonna go on air June 1, and we’re gonna stay on until the end of the world. When that time comes, we’ll cover it, play Nearer My God to Thee and sign off.”

Ballaban told the Guardian he first saw the video while interning at CNN in 2009, after hearing about it from a professor who had ties with the network. The source who provided him the video also took screenshots of its home in CNN’s Mira archive, under the all-caps heading of “TURNER DOOMSDAY VIDEO – HFR till end of the world confirmed.” (HFR means “hold for release”, though the circumstances of what authority should, could or would confirm the apocalypse to a CNN employee, and how – and what that employee should consider when weighing whether to publish the video as he or she and the remnants of humanity stared down the ruination of our species, apparently via CNN broadcast – are unfortunately all omitted.)

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