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Dead Zeppelin: Hindenburg disaster coverage was as tacky as today’s never-ending Flight 370 ‘news’
04.11.2014
10:41 am
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Everyone always forgets what the backend looked like, but what did you expect? It was a Nazi airship!
 
Lately, it almost feels like public disgust with cable TV news coverage has reached some sort of critical mass—I can literally think of no one who didn’t find coverage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 idiotically sensationalized (the anchors probably feel that way, too, because, hey, this bullshit is coming out of their smiling faces all day). And while Fox News certainly went predictably batshit crazy with irresponsible insinuations of Islamic terrorism, it wasn’t just the right-wingers who went crackers. CNN’s Don Lemon went all Twilight Zone—literally, he name-dropped The Twilight Zone—floating theories of black holes and supernatural forces by a panel of adult human beings, on national television, as if it were a totally appropriate thing for a news show to speculate about. This entire charade has the public left wondering, “When is the the real news coming back on?”

But weep not for the long-gone days of American journalistic dignity, dear reader, because that era has never existed! If you’re under the impression that tragic disasters used to be held in a respectable reverence in this country, please refer to the vintage bit of newstainment below, a 1937 Universal Studios newsreel on the Hindenburg explosion. From the Hollywood sturm und drang musical accompaniment to the announcer (who feels freshly picked from a radio soap opera) this little five-minute news reel is pure spectacle There’s an explosion sound effect, studio-recorded screams and a police siren added, apparently to “recreate” the story. It’s at least as vulgar as anything on cable news today, and they didn’t even have the benefit of CNN’s holograms!
 

Posted by Amber Frost
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04.11.2014
10:41 am
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Hindenburg-brau: Most Expensive Beer Ever!
11.11.2009
01:30 pm
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It looks like we can add a bottle of surviving beer to the 60 human survivors of the Hindenburg disaster.  And, for the right price, it can be yours, too, when it goes up for auction this Saturday:

The bottle was found by a fire-fighter cleaning up the American airfield where the German airship exploded in 1937.  The bottle will be the most expensive ever bought if it meets its estimated price of ?Ǭ

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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11.11.2009
01:30 pm
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