Doing The Thinking, So You Don't Have To

Here's a classic example, "reported" by Mallory Simon for CNN:

(CNN) -- Police have identified human remains found buried under recently added concrete at a home in Plant City, Florida, as missing lottery millionaire Abraham Shakespeare, police said Friday.

So far, so good.  But then he gets stupid.

Both Judd and Gee would not comment on whether anything else was found inside the man-made grave or whether a previous person of interest was connected to the area.

Okay.  A "man-made grave".  Exsqueeze me, but aren't all graves "man-made"?  Simon's not done yet, though - his "report" closes with some tantalizing tidbits that nobody could ever have figured out without his incisive reportage:

"It's painfully obvious he didn't get there by himself," Judd said.

"Somebody put that body in that hole," Gee said. "This isn't by any means just where we find someone on the side of the road. Somebody has obviously put him there."

Really?

It's not news - it's CNN.

Small wonder that people who get their "news" from places like this believe in "man-made global warming".