MSNBC Crawl: OBAMA DID NOT USE WIFE AS SHIELD. When will they STOP this!

[Distant Observer]

On "Daily Rundown." This happens on all the channels. Shouldn't there be a sufficient deterrent in these companies to prevent these operators making this mistake.

It is really outrageous.

[zbdent]

1. I've heard all kinds of people on the radio doing it, likely by accident

but you would think that, unless they really meant to do it (and blur the line of which was the terrorist, see "Judge" Napolitano's statements), someone would remember to check their typing ...

[dionysus]

2. who gives a shit?

[Distant Observer]

9. It show CARELESSNESS regarding the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

[dionysus]

11. RARGH! it's the "liberal media" hard at work once again.

:rofl:

[Shagbark Hickory]

3. That what happens when you try to cover a 10 minute story for 12 hours a day.

You have to create and disseminate diarrhea.

[blondeatlast]

23. +1 and very well put. nt

[seabeyond]

4. i have done it so many times, and my boys continue to correct me. osama is a nothing to me, obama

is what i am mainly focused on and i keep saying obama instead of osama. certainly not on purpose.

i am letting this outrage go.

[Distant Observer]

10. A verbal gaffe is understood. BUT WRITTEN NETWORK post can be PROOFED

[seabeyond]

14. and i agree here. generally when tallking about my mistake i do clarify that professional, written

is different. their job to proof. and about all of my posts tht i post i have corrected. one got by with obama instead of osama and thankfully a poster pointed it out to me so i could correct

agreed

[malaise]

5. And it is not a typo

The S and B are far apart on keyboards

[Distant Observer]

6. There is such a thing a PROOF READING

[malaise]

20. Not if you deliberately typed b for s

:evilgrin:

[Snotcicles]

19. Calculated errors, not mistakes. nt

[inademv]

7. I can forgive someone doing it in speech

the context of discussing one of the two can quite often lead to slips of the tongue. But for it to keep happening in print, that's just carelessness.

[AnneD]

8. I don't know....

Michelle strikes me as someone even a Navy SEAL would think twice about messing with. She has some guns.

[Beacool]

12. Actually, neither did Osama.

There's only one letter difference between both names. A ton of people have made that gaffe, including myself.

:shrug:

[Javaman]

13. they won't. in a couple of years, it will be accepted as fact.

this is the world we live in.

[Brickbat]

15. As a journalist, copy editor, and former city editor, I can say that this is not an unusual thing.

If you have autofill or are a touch typist, it's very easy to type one word for another, particularly if you're working quickly. I don't think it's unusual for someone who's typed "Obama" many times a day for the last year to type "Obama" the first time she tries to type "Osama." It's even possible to read over it and misread it.

I said "Obama" when I meant "Osama" three times this week. It happens. With all the different media outlets we have, and all the different media feeds we compile, I'd say these errors aren't unusual.

[Distant Observer]

17. If there is a PENALTY for that mistake, they would be more CAREFUL & SENSITIVE!

[Brickbat]

18. What would a reasonable "penalty" be, and who should impose it?

:shrug:

[Distant Observer]

22. Who RUNS these media conglomerate? It is normal to let staff know DEMOTIONS OR FIRING can result

from egregious errors aired.

[blondeatlast]

26. I can't speak to the penalty--but the news director is ultimately responsible.

Again, I worked as an editor--there is no excuse for this kind of PRINT error.

[Brickbat]

27. You're right, there isn't any excuse. The problem is, print media has made it clear it doesn't

really give a shit anymore -- as long as it's first.

[buddysmellgood]

21. When I worked in broadcast, 20 years ago, this sort of thing could get you fired.

It's a different beast today. The 24-hour news cycle and depleted staff have taken a toll.

[blondeatlast]

24. That's what editors are for--I've been one. Possibly excusable in speech, not in print. nt

[Brickbat]

25. Many print outlets have made it clear, in so many words, that they are happy to trade thin copy

desks -- and the increase in errors that come with them -- for a "better" bottom line. Also, so many believed the lie that "the Internet" was "a new frontier," standards went right out the window.

[alc]

16. it's true

I saw the "war room" photos and Obama was not using his wife as a shield :)