Russia Today
CNN has accidentally “killed” President Barack Obama instead of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in one of its shows. For nearly a minute, CNN displayed a headline with a typo that viewers just could not miss.
The channel’s Erin Burnett OutFront show was dedicated to Robert O’Neill, a Navy SEAL, who is claiming to be the one to have shot and killed Osama bin Laden in the 2011 raid on a Pakistani compound.
CNN eventually replaced “Obama” with “Bin Laden” in the headline, but it was little too late – its viewers had enough time to take pictures of their TV screens and record video to share them online.
Hey @CNN, that’s one name
you can’t misspell. Osama Bin Laden and President Obama aren’t
interchangeable. pic.twitter.com/2yGb86MfJ3
— KB (@Kayla__Brandon) November
8, 2014