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Media CNN Breaks Hot "Robotripping" Story

Posted by Henry Stewart on Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:06 PM

The Heroin of Today

Parents, lock up your medicine cabinets! CNN's fearless reporter Stephanie Smith has discovered a terrible trend among today's kids: they're using cough syrup. To get high.

Oh, wait, you mean, you did the same thing 25 years ago? Before you even had kids? Well, CNN's website must be on a 25 year delay, because they just reported this story yesterday. [via Jack Shafer]

Tags: cnn, robitussin, phony trends, terrible journalism

        
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Friday, July 9, 2010

Media CNN Breaks Hot "Robotripping" Story

Posted by Henry Stewart on Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:06 PM

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