Praise the Lord, the lights are on!
CNN has posted an article stating that “Utility crews have nearly completed restoring power to homes and businesses in Oklahoma, where as many as 600,000 customers were blacked out by last week’s storm.”
What do you suppose this article’s headline was? “Oklahoma power nearly restored”? “Utility crews work tirelessly in Oklahoma?” “Oklahoma storm damage mostly repaired”? Nope: “Prayers answered in Oklahoma“.
Underneath the headline, where you might expect to see a halfway-relevant stock photo (perhaps a downed power line or an iced-over utility pole), they showed a child praying.
What happened to responsible, fact-based journalism? Isn’t the point of the news to, I don’t know, actually investigate the situation and report what happened? Is there any evidence whatsoever that prayer (as opposed to utility crews busting ass, around-the-clock, out in the cold) actually accomplished anything?
It’s one thing to have a quiet personal worldview that attributes every positive event to “God did it!”, but for a major “news” outlet to trumpet that opinion as the headline of a story boggles my mind.
Maybe CNN’s next headline could read “Magic 8-Ball saves stranded family” or “Zeus sends the stock market soaring”…