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Oh, CNN, why can't you keep your editors on the ball?
This isn't about the news itself, so I'm putting this in the roundtable.
CNN recently did a short piece on an asteroid near-miss (in astronomical terms, anyway).
The editing made me cringe.
First, in the first slide of images for the story is the caption:
But wait! There's more. In the body text:
A couple of thousand? This is a joke, right? Just trying to generate comments? Perhaps a few of thousand comments?
Geez, guys, you get paid for this stuff.
This isn't about the news itself, so I'm putting this in the roundtable.
CNN recently did a short piece on an asteroid near-miss (in astronomical terms, anyway).
The editing made me cringe.
First, in the first slide of images for the story is the caption:
"passed closely by"? Really?A diagram shows the orbit of an asteroid named 2013 TV135 (in blue), which made headlines in September 2013 when it passed closely by Earth. The probability of it striking Earth currently stands at 1 in 63,000, and even those odds are fading fast as scientists find out more about the asteroid. It will most likely swing past our planet again in 2032, according to NASA.
But wait! There's more. In the body text:
It made headlines on Thursday, when reports said that there's a chance it could strike our planet in less than 20 years. Such a collision could unleash a force as powerful as a couple of thousand atomic bombs.
A couple of thousand? This is a joke, right? Just trying to generate comments? Perhaps a few of thousand comments?
Geez, guys, you get paid for this stuff.