Wow CNN Sucks

[Ravenseye]

I mean duh right? But I just saw a headline "Former Child Actor Faces Murder Charge". So I think hmm, what's the big distraction going to be now. So I read the article and it says...

"Orange County Superior Court Judge John Conley ordered 26-year-old Skylar Deleon, who once starred in the "Power Rangers" TV series, and his wife, 24-year-old Jennifer Henderson Deleon, to stand trial for the murders after a two-day preliminary hearing in Santa Ana, south of Los Angeles."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/08/16/yacht.murders.reut/index.html

Huh. A Power Ranger huh? Which one? I do a search. Nope. Not a power ranger. It says he 'once starred in the power rangers tv series'. Hmm. Do some more searching.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8930680/

"Skylar Deleon appeared as an extra in the "Power Rangers" TV series, relatives said."

So a relative says "oh yeah Skylar once appeared as an extra on the Power Rangers show", and CNN turns that into "...who once starred in the power rangers tv series..."

Nice. Good reporting there.

[GRLMGC]

1. wow

that's pretty wretched

[Incitatus]

2. Damn, they are trying as hard as they can

to report anything but the news.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. They need to hire you for the research dept

[Ravenseye]

5. I have a feeling...

...that if I were sitting in their research department all I would hear would be crickets.

[philarq]

7. The breaking news perhaps should have been

That their research computer (singular) was shut down by computer worm---I found that "Breaking News" much more suspect, but then if anyone would have pointed this out, we would have been subjected to "All Madonna injury report all the time"

Just a though I had to share--

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Esp with their computer virus trouble just now *l*

[AuntPatsy]

LOL, good investigative reporting skills you got going on..

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. Duh is right! n/t

[donco6]

6. Even the main characters performed with masks.

Jeez, what's it take to be an extra on the Power Rangers?

[kcass1954]

9. They can't even properly investigate the non-news. n/t

[cascadiance]

10. Well, Steve Jobs came back to rescue Apple from oblivion...

Do you think that Ted Turner could be persuaded or be able to do the same or do you think he'd be too happy to stay away from that mess now that he's out of it?

[jsamuel]

11. CNN is currently a cracked shell of a news channel