Bias?: Cnn Flashes 'x' Over Vp's Face During Live Speech

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CNN SENIOR MANAGEMENT LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION; CONTROL ROOM STAFFER 'LAUGHED' WHEN X FLASHED, SAYS SOURCE...

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LOL!!!

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Call me crazy but..............

Didn't CNN go to extravagant measures to explain to the audience how this "computer glitch" happens? I think it was that CNN chic that Rush Limbaugh was/is dating, Daryn Kagan? So now it's "FREE SPEECH" and not,"this was a technical malfunction, not an issue of operator error"?

NICE JOB CNN! Not only do the staff blatantly inject bias in the news, they blast "X's" over the face of the VP during a live speech, then when viewers call to complain, the staff starts blasting the caller? NICE!

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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN NOV 27 2005 17:05:23 ET XXXXX

CNN OPERATOR FIRED AFTER SUGGESTING 'X' OVER CHENEY WAS 'FREE SPEECH'

A CNN switchboard operator was fired over the holiday -- after the operator claimed the 'X' placed over Vice President's Dick Cheney's face was "free speech!"

"We did it just to make a point. Tell them to stop lying, Bush and Cheney," the CNN operator said to a caller. "Bring our soldiers home."

The caller initially phoned the network to complain about the all-news channel flashing an "X' over Cheney as he gave an address live from Washington.

"Was it not freedom of speech? Yes or No?" the CNN operator explained.

"If you don't like it, don't watch."

Laurie Goldberg, Senior Vice President for Public Relations with CNN, said in a release:

"A Turner switchboard operator was fired today after we were alerted to a conversation the operator had with a caller in which the operator lost his temper and expressed his personal views -- behavior that was totally inappropriate. His comments did not reflect the views of CNN. We are reaching out to the caller and expressing our deep regret to her and apologizing that she did not get the courtesy entitled to her. "

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CNN Apologizes for X on Cheney's Face

Nov 23 11:54 AM US/Eastern

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NEW YORK

CNN has apologized for a "technical malfunction" that briefly flashed a black "X" mark over the face of Vice President Dick Cheney during the network's coverage of a speech on Monday.

CNN, a unit of Time Warner Inc., later issued a mea culpa saying an investigation by senior management concluded "this was a technical malfunction, not an issue of operator error" and expressing regret for the incident.

The network followed up with a special on-air segment during its "CNN Live Today" broadcast, in which anchor Daryn Kagan joined the network's technical manager, Steve Alperin, in the control room to offer a fuller explanation.

The "X" image, a place-holding marker used by technicians to cue up graphics, is not supposed to be visible to viewers but was inadvertently projected onto the screen by a malfunction in a "switcher" device, they explained.

"So, for all the conspiracy theories out there," Kagan said, " ... that's not what this is about. It's a computer bug that people deal with everyday. It's just that ours was in front of millions of people."