Thursday, June 28, 2012

Breaking "breaking news" of CNN: Dewey defeats... Obama!


Research credit: S. Chemaly

When is breaking news too fast to become a breaking news? And if every news becomes a breaking news will it remaing worthy to be a breaking news?... OK, so let's see how fast is CNN these days: "The Supreme Court has struck down the individual mandate for health care," but wait that was too fast... "The Supreme Court backs all parts of President Obama's signature health care law."
Is it clear? And fast? And accurate? And checked?
Who cares! With CNN "be the first to know"... Or "misKNOW"!
This I suppose is modern's day interpretation of the now infamous headline "Dewey defeats Truman" by the Chicago Daily Tribune:

UPDATE:
A couple of hours after posting this and to validate my point, here's a brilliant illustration from Gary He


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