Why does CNN use that blood and guts/world map background?

[Fridays Child]

This disturbs me. I know it's a map but it looks like body tissue floating in a pool of blood.

[knowbody0]

1. same here,

I see cuts of steak, roast beef etc. I no longer eat meat, and I was thinking that was why I was often barfed out by this map.

[Fridays Child]

5. Yes. Raw meat. It also reminds me of this...

[gumby]

2. Noted that when they first put it up on

Situation Room.

Maybe it's an homage to George Bush blowing up the world.

[uppityperson]

3. lights of Europe, India/Asia, Africa colored red?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

4. Actually Africa Looks Like A Great Piece Of Steak! Fire Up The Grill Baby!

:)

[Fridays Child]

7. T-bone

I like a good steak but CNN is messing that up for me. Maybe I'll have to give up red meat. I don't know. It's just a gross and disturbing graphic.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

10. In All Seriousness I Agree With Ya. It Is Kinda Disturbing Looking.

Never saw it before though.

[valerief]

6. To appeal to its neocon audience. nt

[Skidmore]

8. Given the state of that area of the world right now, it's somhow

appropriate.

[Fridays Child]

11. Gruesomely so.

I have to wonder if CNN did a focus group on it. It's just so damn weird.

[Individualist]

9. Conservative News Network feeds on death and destruction

[Fridays Child]

12. Do they inadvertently show their true colors...

...so to speak, or is there a method to their madness?