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Going Rogue sparks cover confusion

November 18, 2009 – 8:00 am

The evening newscast of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation last night ran an image of the wrong Going Rogue. The book written by Sarah Palin is titled, Going Rogue: An American Life. Another book, written by two staffers at the Nation, is called, Going Rouge: Sarah Palin An American Nightmare.

From a report in the Globe And Mail:

The CBC has admitted it inadvertently displayed the jacket of an anti-Sarah Palin book during a story about the former vice-presidential candidate that aired on The National.
The gaffe came Monday night during a piece on Ms. Palin’s hotly anticipated new memoir Going Rogue: An American Life.
A CBC spokesman confirmed that the network mistakenly put up a graphic depicting the cover of Going Rouge: Sarah Palin An American Nightmare…

CBC spokesman Jeff Keay says the mistake was fixed in a subsequent broadcast.

No mention of a correction. I also wonder if the same thing happened at the Herald in South Carolina, given this corection:

The wrong book cover ran in Monday s Herald with a story about Sarah Palin. Palin’s new book, Going Rogue, hits bookstores today.

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CBC apologizes for abuse of puppetry

November 30, 2007 – 8:00 am

It’s not exactly the usual fare for us, but anything that involves a national public broadcaster, puppets, and an apology is simply irresistible. From a story in the Globe And Mail:

CBC has learned the hard way not to mess with puppets, and yesterday officially apologized to Rusty the Rooster and Jerome the Giraffe.

The Homme family removed the beloved puppets – stars of deceased creator Bob Homme’s hit show The Friendly Giant – from the CBC Museum yesterday after the broadcaster used the characters in a recent Gemini Awards skit without the family’s permission.

Jeff Keay, spokesman for the public broadcaster, said “we have apologized to members of the Homme family for not getting their permission to use The Friendly Giant puppets … and we sincerely regret they feel any trust was breached.”

Ann Homme, a daughter of Bob, said in a recent e-mail to The Globe and Mail that the Gemini infraction was “the last straw.”

“Until recently, we were contacted by the people at the CBC museum, where the puppets are on loan, by a very conscientious woman who seemed to guard the Friendly Giant display with her life,” Ms. Homme wrote. “Recently, she was let go, and replaced by someone who seems to think our permission is unnecessary. Needless to say, I am going to remove the Friendly Giant props and puppets as soon as possible.”

By Craig Silverman | Posted in Television | Comments