CNN or the Onion?

Seriously, is this CNN or the Onion?

Awesome. CNN is so desperate for a little climatic disaster porn that it put this clearly fabbed pic of a hurricane "victim" as their lead image on the website this morning. Post adolescent prankster 1, "The most trusted name in news" 0.

Gosh, who woulda thought that the MSM had an incentive to spectacularize disasters for the sake of generating web hits, selling ad space, or capturing news viewership? But is it really possible that the urge to show everyone that "one great shot" caused someone at CNN to mistake some joker's antics for a picture of a guy holding on for dear life in the face of hurricane force winds? Or did CNN willingly accept a clearly fabbed image? I don't wanna run around publically slinging haphazardly constructed ideas or images without verifying them (ahem...) but I think that the people of Galveston should be careful if they see Anderson Cooper or Soledad O'Brien lurking in an alley with a fire hose and a giant wind machine...

My gripes with CNN aside, we hope and pray that the folks in Texas and LA are safe and that the damage was not too severe.