Staff Blog
Emancipated American journalist Laura Ling loves FREEDOM! And … hoagies?
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The big news right now is Kim Jong-il’s decision to free U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who’ve been detained in North Korea since late March. Of course, this is the first story on CNN.com as we speak (see above). But take a closer look at Ling’s photo — wondering what that odd object in the bottom left corner is? Here’s how Ling and Lee’s pictures were originally displayed up until a few minutes ago, when a web editor cropped the image:
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That, friends, appears to be a hoagie. Most likely an Italian hoagie.
This raises a few questions.
First — the credit on the photos suggest that they were provided by the families of the just-freed journos. Could it be that the Ling clan was so overwhelmed with joy and emotion that they simply shot off the first picture of their daughter they could find, which just so happened to be the 32-year-old posing with a delicious-looking sandwich wrapped in wax paper?
Second — why did CNN decide to zoom in/crop the image after its initial posting? Is it inappropriate to show a former detainee brandishing a sandwich like a motherfucking microphone? We certainly don’t think so. On the contrary — nothing, in our opinion at least, screams democracy quite like this. Fuck you, Kim Jong-il, you evil commie bastard! This shit has THREE KINDS OF HAM ON IT!
(h/t Gerard)
This is amazing!
Now this is what I call breaking news.
Up in the sky
There’s a man flying by
In the WaWa hoagie balloon…
brilliant
Where’s unbreaded? Quick, somebody tell them.
Bill Clinton should be dispatched to CNN headquarters to lobby against the repression of hoagies in news photographs.
I’ll bet one Ricci Bros. Italian on a long roll that he reaches an accord in under two hours.
Gee, really love the perfectly requisite and appropriate F-bombs and other profanity. They add so much shine and sparkle to the vapid swillbait of this post.
Honestly?
Not.
Not one iota.
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