…john cena, cnn, wwe & steroids

i watched “death grip,” a cnn special investigation on the use of performance enhancing drugs in professional wrestling the other day. i’m not a huge wrestling fan, heck… i’m not even a small wrestling fan. i used to watch it a lot, so a lot of names are still familiar and i occasionally will stay on wrestling every once in a while when flipping through channels.

i was surprised, as i was watching it, to hear a vaguely guilt-ridden answer about steroid use from john cena. i’ve always been impressed by the guy, kind of like the next coming of “the rock.” in addition, while he is built, i never would have pegged him for a user. you know how you can just “tell” things about people sometimes? i just felt like he was an all around good guy.

well, it turns out that my surprise at the report wasn’t for naught.

i’m usually a huge fan of cnn… but i’m really upset at this absolute train-wreck of a job they tried to work on cena and the wwe. watch this video first… it’s the cnn cut, precisely what they put on the air…

now, the thorn in cnn’s side… wwe taped the interviews as well. here’s the uncut version

that right there folks, is terrible journalism.

[h/t: tvsquad]