Thursday, April 18, 2013

Fire, Ready, Aim; CNN and the Boston Bombing Edition

CNN puts on its golfing shoes and then proceeds to step all over its crank, first claiming that the cops have arrested a suspect and then having to back off that.

I can appreciate the urge to run with a scoop. But damn, isn't it preferable to be accurate over the journalistic equivalent of "spray and pray"?

CNN, Your First Choice For Wild-Ass Guesses.

1 comment:

  1. I like them when I want to see the same video clip thirty times while ignorant people speculate about things far outside of their experience.

    Their experience, which is striving to enter the top 95% of journalistic excellence.

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