Just as it does with almost every mass shooting, CNN pounced on the opportunity created by the fatal flash-flooding in Texas to weaponize it for the Axis of Unethical Conduct, or which it is a card-carrying member. Partisan propaganda is not the function of ethical journalism, if anyone can even remember what that is now. Nor is lying outright, as CNN does in this passage:
“The NOAA research cuts would come just as human-caused climate change is resulting in more frequent and intense downpours like the ones that led to this tragedy in Texas.”
Nice! CNN states as fact what many scientists and researcher deny. Climate change hysterics keep claiming that weather events like hurricanes are increasing, but so far, their predictions have proven repeatedly and inconveniently wrong. Nor is there evidence of “more frequent downpours” like what just hit Texas: what made that downpour newsworthy and disastrous was that it was so unusual. One freak weather event doesn’t prove anything, but nevermind: CNN’s goal is a political agenda, not informing the public.
Most of the news story tries to blame the disaster on the Trump budget cuts, even though at one point CNN says that the flood warnings were timely. That doesn’t stop it from littering the piece with subheads like “Forecast offices stretched thin,” though their own reporting makes it clear that this is irrelevant to the Texas flooding.
Well, hey, if the spin can know a point or two off Trump’s approval rating in a poll, it’s worth it, right?
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Pointer: Arthur in Maine
Ethics Alarms 
Whether it be Nostradamus, Zohan the neighborhood psychic, or stock market analysts, predictions are always reported after the fact. Just an observation,
The ink is not even dry on the Bill and yet it is responsible for airline crashes, drive by shootings, the destruction of families, the death of uncounted numbers due lack of medical care, starvation nationwide, and of course th erosion of democracy,
1987 Guadalupe River Flood
https://www.weather.gov/ewx/wxevent-19870717
I remember seeing this on the news; back when there were a limited number of news channels, 1987. I remember seeing the helicopter rescues on the news that are shown on the video on the linked page. The parallel are eerily similar; check it out.
The article compares that ’87 flood to a “famous 1978 flood.” That means flooding on the Guadalupe River is not only NOT unprecedented, it’s also not happening with greater frequency, it’s not a product of anthropogenic climate change, it’s not President Trump’s fault, and this year’s deaths do not result from any perceived (or real) staffing issues at NOAA.
The headline for the 0.8% of the population that watches CNN is “Your Network of Choice Unable to Recognize Truth if it Slapped Them Silly”.
Scott Jennings is a mental “god” compared with his opposition on that network.