Amateur Hour at CNN: Error-Filled Chyron During Beck Rally

Newsbusters ^ | August 28, 2010 | Jeff Poor

[Rufus2007]

Must be letting the interns write the on-screen captions on the weekends...

[ILS21R]

Everybody at CNN needs to be drug-tested.

[mainepatsfan]

Must be letting the interns write the on-screen captions on the weekends...

That's usually how it goes in the television world.

[Dilbert San Diego]

somewhat off topic, but just went over to Google News.

On google news now, the top stories are:

1. Al Sharpton’s rally
2. the 5 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
3. Paris Hilton’s cocaine arrest
4. a story about a California prison riot
5. Muslim youth concerns about anti-Muslim sentiment
6. the Miller-Murkowski election in Alaska

There was nothing about Glenn Beck in the headlines. It seems odd, especially since the #1 story was Al Sharpton’s rally in Washington today. It seems odd that they didn’t mention that there was another big rally in Washington today.

[BigSkyFreeper]

 

Cross-posted from here

[BenLurkin]

They have their very own memory hole.

[LA Woman3]

Maybe the glasses threw them off! LOL!

[BigSkyFreeper]

LOL. Perhaps!

[kenmcg]

CNN......= COMMIE NEWS NETWORK!!!

[dalebert]

If cnn doesnt have the news they will make it up.

[wally_bert]

I ran the old Chyron MAX back in my studio production days and something like that would NEVER be tolerated.

[Seattle Conservative]

I won’t use google - they’re too close w the Obambi admin; and, they give lots of $$s to dems (as I understand it, they get a lot of $s from people using/clicking on their site).

I use Bing and out of curiosity, I went to bing.com and clicked on News (left side). The top item on the news list was the Glen Beck rally:
http://www.bing.com/news?FORM=Z9LH7

[matt04]

I guess as long as it is someone speaking at a Tea Party event and spelled vaguely correctly it is OK. If they mixed up Sharpton and Jackson you can bet they would be on their knees begging for forgiveness.

[mainepatsfan]

I ran the old Chyron MAX back in my studio production days and something like that would NEVER be tolerated.

Yeah I have some back ground in that very field as well and you're right it would not be put up with for a second.

[Morgan in Denver]

Is there more than one site for Google News?

I just looked and Beck was listed first, and Sharpton is not listed at all.

[niteowl77]

Google News was consistently obtuse when I used to check them out; it appears that they remain steadfast.

On the other hand, the Mediacom home page news has seen fit to mention Beck... albeit in smaller type below the far more important story "Baby tiger found in bag at Thai airport."

Mr. niteowl77

[Interesting Times]

Fortunately, nobody was watching.

[I see my hands]

Who did this rally convince?

[JPG]

You refer to what Contessa Brewer did on PDSNBC?

[ozzymandus]

CNN spent most of the day covering race-baiting fraud Sharpton and his 300 people. the rest of their coverage was about Katrina, as if it just happened.