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A slight glitch while using the remote led an Altoona man to a strange television channel called "CNN" last night. "My thumbs are kinda big and I guess I hit the wrong button, or something," said Vern Gerns. "It was the strangest thing." The formal name of the station was the "Cable News Network." "You ever hear of it?" said Gerns. "Nah. Me neither." Gerns said his friends or family never heard of the channel, either. According to Gerns, the television channel featured 24 hours of news segments. The segments didn't necessarily jibe with reality, making him think initially it was a satire show with that "John Stewart feller." His wife speculated the channel originated from a foreign country. "It must have been from France, possibleF," said his wife, Fellicia Gerns. "I never heard of some of those things that were happening. Weird." Gerns later researched the station. According to his research, CNN was originally the only 24-hour news station on cable, but quickly became the mouthpiece of the Democratic Party and left-leaning organizations. Gerns said he won't visit the channel again. "It's kind of like the time my family visited that ghost town," said Gerns. "It was amusing, but I wouldn't want to live there, you know."
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