CNN's leaked Cheney obit mock-up honors his "Life as Queen Consort"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/cnnobit1.html

APRIL 16--While all news organizations prepare obituaries in advance of the deaths of famous individuals, the folks at CNN inadvertently gave the Internet-surfing public a chance to preview how the network's web site would note the demise of Vice President Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan, and a few other prominent figures. Until earlier this afternoon, a CNN server housed mock-ups of web pages announcing the yet-to-happen deaths. The CNN pages, which were discovered by the intrepid folks at fark.com, were yanked about 20 minutes after being exposed (though TSG was able to grab a few of the pages for posterity's sake). The premature obituaries, housed in a publicly accessible area of the CNN server and searchable via Google, were apparently the work of Peter Rentz, a senior multimedia designer at CNN. The mock-ups are virtually identical to the obituary design currently used by CNN when a notable person dies (click here to see how CNN covered the Queen Mother's March 2002 death). In fact, elements of the Queen Mum's obit template can be seen in the below Cheney design.

[Montauk6]

1. Geez... that smirk is what he's going out with?

[greiner3]

2. Damn, I thought reagan died in 1972;

Go figure! I he was a real person, he would have been buried when he stopped breathing, not when he finally stopped talking.

[SpiralHawk]

3. And not one mention of White House Queen, Jeff Gannon?

Really. I am shocked, shocked I tell you.

But then again, the male prostitue Gannon (nee Guckert) who worked so dilegently in the bowels of the Bush White House, always claimed he was a "top."

Do the press needs to dig more deeply into the cornsorting with the Queen stuff. That's for sure.