Netscape responsible for Bush photo insult [image filename a**hole.jpg, employee fired]

CNN via Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit ^ | 11/04/04 | unknown

[conelrad]

ANOTHER UPDATE: You can see a more complete statement on CNN's homepage -- click the "Netscape responsible for Bush photo insult" link at the top right. But since that's a java box and can't be directly linked, and probably won't be archived anywhere, I'm going to reproduce the full thing in the "extended entry" area below. Hit "read more" to read it.

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Netscape responsible for Bush photo insult

Disparaging image tags used to identify photos of President and Mrs. Bush currently circulating on the Internet were not created, disseminated or posted by CNN at any time, as is alleged. They were done by a junior-level employee of Netscape and posted on Netscape.com. CNN had no knowledge of this until it surfaced on other Web sites.

Netscape, which corrected the situation when it was discovered, has released a statement apologizing for the "inappropriate and disparaging terms" that were used in the image tags -- and saying that the company has terminated the employee.

So there you are.

[Boss_Jim_Gettys]

Another poor soul loses his/her job during the worst economy since the Hoover Administration.

Bush's fault.

[Talking_Mouse]

When are they going to learn that not all geeks are liberals?

[SteveMcKing]

Now watch as Slashdot claims that his free speech was violated, and Netscape had no right to fire him! (They'll also blame Bush and say Netscape is scared of him.)

[Professional]

Imagine the fired guy.

First he hates bush, then gets fired because of him!

That GW, such a sneaky devil...

[Dog Gone]

I love it when the liberal media is exposed for being the hateful partisans that they are.

Someday, the liberal businessmen that run them will wonder how they can improve profits and market share. Someday, their stockholders will demand it.

[weegee]

All of this hidden disgust for Republicans has me thinking that I am living in the world of They Live. That ordinary looking billboards and broadcast messages contain countless subliminal messages that may never be received by the public at large.

We are a resistance movement to this socialist threat. If only I could find some of those sunglasses...

[OldFriend]

Hah, someone got paid to take the fall.

I'm still betting it originated at CNN.

[tiki]

And now the unemployment rate has gone up again and it's all Bush's fault.

[Jeff Gordon]

Gee, they are ready to hang Bush for Abu Gharb and missing explosive because he is the leader. When they screw up, it is the fault of some low level employee.

[Yardstick]

All of this hidden disgust for Republicans has me thinking that I am living in the world of They Live. That ordinary looking billboards and broadcast messages contain countless subliminal messages that may never be received by the public at large.

Yep -- I know the feeling.

[antaresequity]

[KoRn]

I guess the "Employee" will join Bob Shrum and McAwfull in the unemployment line.

[weegee]

Someone at CNN had to see that filename when the image was grabbed even if it resides on Netscape's servers.

[weegee]

Along with Tommy Dasshole and Johnny Edwards. Ha hah!

[LadyPilgrim]

The MSM doesn't know when to stop.

[VaBthang4]

Thank you for the image.

[antaresequity]

Thank you for the image

$5.00...

[politicket]

OK computer geeks...I'm confused!

CNN says that it wasn't their fault, just some guy at Netscape messing around and he got fired.

Here's the question: the URL of the link is: cnn.netscape.cnn.com. That means that the "domain" that the image was served on was "cnn.com". The first part of the URL is "cnn.netscape", which would just be a "host name" attached to the domain through the DNS server.

The ONLY way that CNN wouldn't "know" about it is if the "cnn.netscape" host name pointed to a different server that was completely controlled by Netscape. Would CNN allow their domain to be controlled in such a way?

Thoughts???

[KoRn]

I was leaving Edwards alone because of his wife. Unlike the libs I do see people as humans, even if I disagree with them.

[politicket]

Oops...Never Mind...

The page the image was USED on belongs to cnn.com, but the image itself was PULLED from a netscape.com server.

It still seems to me that a web copy editor would have to choose that image from the netscape.com server since netscape.com only provides the image and not the story.