This would be angering, if it weren't so funny.
In a feeble effort to describe the violence in France, CNN anchor Carol Lin (and Asian-American) described the youths that were killed and sparked the riots as...African-Americans. Despite the fact that they were Tunisi-Franco. Oh my...
Download the video and watch it...again...if it weren't so pathetically funny, it would be infuritating.
CNN in their efforts to hire news anchor "persons" who represent a "fair" balance of the Worlds peoples like the BBC apparently don't see at least some grounding in basic Worldly knowledge as a prerequisite to getting the job in the first place.
Look at the BBC World line up, all the old hard headed newsmen have thought "fuck this I'm off".
Posted by: Stevo in Taichung | November 15, 2005 at 06:50 PM
All you have to do to get a job like that is...look pretty...and be able to read large type from 3 meters away. Any questions that you are required to ask will be sent to your ear via someone behind the camera.
As in Bull Durham..."Don't think, meat."
Posted by: GZ Expat | November 15, 2005 at 08:32 PM