Wolf Blitzer offers up a correction*

Posted on March 8, 2010, 8:00 am, by Craig Silverman, under Television.

TV Newser offered this transcript of an on-air correction from Wolf Blitzer on March 5:

We had a graphic on the screen that said “department of jihad” followed by a question mark and many of you tweeted me that you found that graphic to be offensive. I agree, it was. The graphic referenced a video produced by Liz Cheney’s organization “Keep America Safe.” Their video features those words on screen questioning the loyalty of justice department attorneys who had previously worked on behalf of Guantanamo detainees. CNN had no intention of suggesting that the Justice Department supports terrorism. Lawyers at the Justice Department are patriotic Americans and we certainly regret any confusion that may have been caused by our graphic. Link

Thanks, Daniel!

*Correction March 8, 2010: The headline of this post original and incorrectly referred to “Wold Blitzer,” instead of Wolf Blitzer. It has been corrected. Thanks to Marty for spotting this embarrassing typo. And then Charlene pointed out the fact that I had also misspelled the bearded one’s last name (“Bitzer”). (Turns out Mark caught that one as well.) An impressive bit of work on my part.

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  • Blurgle

    You now have “Wolf Bitzer” instead of “Wolf Blitzer” in the headline.

    I mistakenly turned the Prime Minister into Steven Harker last week so I feel your pain.

  • Blurgle

    You now have “Wolf Bitzer” instead of “Wolf Blitzer” in the headline.

    I mistakenly turned the Prime Minister into Steven Harker last week so I feel your pain.

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