11.10.2014 - 16:48 [ Media Matters ]

CNN Turns To Outbreak Fiction Writer For Ebola Coverage

CNN Tonight turned to ophthalmologist and fiction writer Dr. Robin Cook to hype unsubstantiated fears about the transmission of the Ebola Virus and the CDC‘s grasp on the situation.

Presenting Cook as „The Man Who Wrote The Book On Ebola,“ host Don Lemon called Cook‘s 1987 fiction thriller Outbreak, which details an Ebola outbreak in the U.S.,“ prophetic.“