BILLY JOEL: CNN Uses "Only the Good Die Young" at an Insensitive Moment
Someone at CNN must have been asleep at the switch this morning (Monday), when just two minutes after the end of a discussion on the tragic shootings at the Sikh temple in Minnesota, they returned after a break to the sounds of Billy Joel's "Only the Good Die Young."
Someone at CNN must have been asleep at the switch this morning (Monday), when just two minutes after the end of a discussion on the tragic shootings at the Sikh temple in Minnesota, they returned after a break to the sounds of Billy Joel's "Only the Good Die Young." It's common for TV news programs to plug in classic hits to use as "bumpers" or transitions in or out of commercial breaks. But this song? Political strategist and panel Hank Scheinkopf suggested it. Amazingly, it didn't seem to strike anyone on the set of Starting Point as being out of line. Still, a close look at the lyrics -- "They built you a temple and locked you away/But they never told you the price that you pay/Things that you might have done/Only the good die young" -- makes many of us
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