Is CNN exploiting American xenophobia about Senator Barack Obama's name?
The REAL Senator Barack Obama
The CNN news image of Osama Bin Laden (with caption: where's Obama?)
As a foreign born citizen of the United States and one with a foreign sounding name like Senator Obama's, and one who has been discriminated against because of these characteristics, I have been concerned about what CNN did to Mr. Obama. This leads me to ask a very simple question: Is CNN exploiting the XENOPHOBIA that grips most Americans, or this a "typographical error", as CNN The Situation Room anchor Wolf Blitzer explained it? You be the Judge.
Labels: Democratism, News reporting, Public Service
posted by KYJurisDoctor at 1:08 PM
2 Comments:
I don't think it would be CNN as a whole. They seem to be very "one world" if you know what I mean. Maybe someone in the production room. I think, though, that it would have to be John Stewart who started it with "His first name rhymes with Iraq, His last with Osama, and his middle name is...you guessed it, Hussein."
I suspect someone in the production (or editorial) room, too, but don't know who. Another thought is why conservative news media did not pounce on the story. If the "perps" were reversed, the Liberal news media would have been on the story "like stink on a skunk"!
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