Osama for President
January 2, 2007
CNN, the most trusted name in news... not so much. I no longer trust CNN to distinguish between Barack Obama (US Senator from Illinois) and Osama Bin Laden (Terrorist and leader of Al-Quida).
Did someone make a typo? Maybe. I wonder where the editor was on this one? Some might attribute this to human error (which we are all prone to); but I believe that when you brand yourself as the most trusted name in news, making mistakes like this is unacceptable. I’ve never been a huge fan of cable TV news, but I once watched CNN fairly regularly. Inside Politics and Crossfire were excellent shows that were canceled; Lou Dobbs’s show, which was once pretty credible, is now an entertainment program and the laughing stock of political punditry; and Anderson Cooper 360, my favorite show on CNN, now has to compete with prime-time TV. CNN is crashing and burning… fast.
Is there any chance I'll see "Osama for President" on CNN when they're running a story about Obama? Sadly, it wouldn't surprise me.
Update: Blitzer apologized for the "typographical" error the next morning on CNN; but come on guys... this should never have happened in the first place.
Did someone make a typo? Maybe. I wonder where the editor was on this one? Some might attribute this to human error (which we are all prone to); but I believe that when you brand yourself as the most trusted name in news, making mistakes like this is unacceptable. I’ve never been a huge fan of cable TV news, but I once watched CNN fairly regularly. Inside Politics and Crossfire were excellent shows that were canceled; Lou Dobbs’s show, which was once pretty credible, is now an entertainment program and the laughing stock of political punditry; and Anderson Cooper 360, my favorite show on CNN, now has to compete with prime-time TV. CNN is crashing and burning… fast.
Is there any chance I'll see "Osama for President" on CNN when they're running a story about Obama? Sadly, it wouldn't surprise me.
Update: Blitzer apologized for the "typographical" error the next morning on CNN; but come on guys... this should never have happened in the first place.
