Posted on 03/04/2002 8:26:54 AM PST by crazyj
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:04:36 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
AFTER suffering another ratings plunge, CNN is desperately - and ridiculously - trying to blame a drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on the rival Fox News Channel. On Wednesday, Fox reported exclusively that Special Operations units were on the ground in Iraq. A "crawl" below the screen reported the story and anchor John Scott talked about it. Unfortunately, Scott made a minor mistake when he initially said "Special Forces" were on the ground. (Special Operations are affiliated with the CIA, while Special Forces are under the command of the Pentagon.) But Scott immediately corrected his verbal error. Several minutes before Scott's slip-up, a report was released that stated consumer confidence was slipping - causing the DJIA to plunge. By the end of the day, it had dropped 140 points. But CNN's "Moneyline" show reported that the Dow had slipped on the Iraq news. And on Thursday morning - the day FNC posted higher ratings than CNN for the second month in a row - CNN anchors started crowing about the Fox "error," which they mistakenly claimed had sent the stock market reeling. Jack Cafferty, Paula Zahn's co-host on CNN's morning show, quipped: "I understand [Fox] may change the slogan from
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I thought Roger Mudd had been retired for years?
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