Alleged CNN ‘Doomsday’ Video For The End Of The World Has Been Released

Are you ready for the end of the world? Allegedly CNN is. A "Doomsday" video for the end of the world was produced in the 1980's and it's been released.

A Jalopnik writer named Michael Ballaban says he was an intern for Wolf Blitzer's The Situation Room in 2009 when he located the video of the "Nearer My God To Thee" being played that Turner planned to air for the end of the world:

He says the video was titled: "TURNER DOOMSDAY VIDEO." CNN started in the midst of the Cold War, and it was a public concern that nuclear war could end the world at any moment."

 

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE

Ted Turner is famous for the following quote about CNN when it launched:

"We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event," owner Ted Turner said when CNN launched in 1980. "We'll play the National Anthem only one time, on the first of June, and when the end of the world comes, we'll play 'Nearer My God To Thee' before we sign off."

I guess it's always nice to be prepared...