Major Embarrassment For CNN

[WillParkinson]

Major Embarrassment For CNN

OMFG. Faces are red at CNN today after the network played a rap song containing the word "nigga" during a human interest piece about an elderly black woman who still drives her car at the age of 103. The network returned minutes later to offer an apology. My guess is that the producer who selected Coolio's Fantastic Voyage had only ever heard the "clean" radio version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oF1pf5V-SQ&feature=player_embedded

[slackmaster]

1. ROFLMAOKAS!!!

:rofl:

[KansDem]

2. CNN *is* an embarrassment.

Along with FOX, NPR, and the rest of the catapulters of propaganda...

[Renew Deal]

3. Oops!

:banghead:

[SidDithers]

4. The producer is also probably too young to know the chorus...

was taken from Lakeside's Fantastic Voyage from 1980.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1YjmXSyHa8


Sid

[csziggy]

5. And I thought this thread was going to be about Wolf Blitzer....

[lame54]

6. are they trying to win over teabagger viewers

[JBoy]

7. Even with clean lyrics, was that appropriate music for a 103 year old woman?

[Kahuna]

8. Poor cnn. They can't catch a break. The stupid... It burns!

:rofl:

[Scurrilous]

9. Very un-Coolio. n/t

[City Lights]

10. Too 'stoopid' to call themselves a news channel.

Sucks to be them. Sucks more to be one of their viewers.

[vanbean]

11. Forget the rap music and forget CNN. That was a great story about an amazing lady.

[gorfle]

12. What's the problem?

The song sounds like it was sung by and African American. If he's OK with singing it, I don't see the problem with playing it.

[Dont TS Me Brah]

13. that's a monumentous mistake.

but I'm not surprised. If you follow the "crawl" on CNN it is littered with grammatical errors all day long.