CNN's Cheap Stunt

As it did soon after the Virginia Tech massacre last April, CNN has been airing a repeat of a program entitled "Criminally Insane." It's done by the networks SIU, or special investigations unit. As someone with a fair amount of experience with investigative reporting and the criminally insane, the program strikes me as remarkably thin and is just a typical cheap attempt to get viewers to tune in on a slow news weekend.

Not once in all my years of watching CNN--and that would be like 25 years--have I ever seen the network put on a program about why we keep having anti-depressants seemingly connected to some of these rampage shootings. I'm not blaming the anti-depressants, I'm simply saying there's something there that demands an examination. Given how shopworn this weekend's program has become, maybe it's time the network did an update. Or are they going to let Fox News have all the fun?