CNN: That (last) irritating noise you’ll hear at the airport?

Has the long-rumored “CNN End of the World” video finally surfaced?

Some people are saying it has…

The video has already outlasted Ted Turner’s ownership and the rise and fall of AOL. If it has not yet had the chance to serve as the capstone of all human experience, it nevertheless stands as a quiet monument to the globe-girdling ambitions behind CNN.

CNN may be the human centipede of journalism at this point, its bloated corpse stumbling through the supposed middle ground of the wasteland that is American cable news, but it wasn’t always that way.