{"id":582846,"date":"2010-05-28T12:09:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T16:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=106516"},"modified":"2010-05-28T12:09:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T16:09:34","slug":"cnn-n-word-gaffe-leaves-ratings-challenged-network-redfaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/582846","title":{"rendered":"CNN N-Word Gaffe Leaves Ratings-Challenged Network Redfaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sinking ship that is CNN is at the center another humiliating debacle.<\/p>\n<p>The network has apologized after it broadcast the N-word during a tory about a 103-year-old Black woman who still gets behind the wheel to get around her Pennsylvania hometown.<\/p>\n<p>And you thought the time they fell for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-19632-Salt-Lake-City-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m2d25-CNN-falls-for-140yearold-hot-dog-hoax\">140-year-old hot dog hoax<\/a> was embarrassing!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.worldstarhiphop.com\/videos\/e\/16711680\/wshh863Tg4Kj9p26L1d9\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.worldstarhiphop.com\/videos\/e\/16711680\/wshh863Tg4Kj9p26L1d9\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-106516\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For reasons that made sense at the time, the network opted to use the mid-90s Coolio track &#8220;Fantastic Voyage&#8221; to accompany the piece. The lyrics in the song include the words: &#8216;Ain&#8217;t no punk-ass n***gas set tripping.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anchor Kyra Phillips apologised for the use of the song and the racial slur later in the broadcast.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We aired some music just a few minutes ago, and obviously for those of you that heard it, it was the wrong music that aired. We apologise for that. It was a terrible mistake. And we&#8217;re working very hard to make up for it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/WZnBJRRYQ3xHlpi0RhyOxOveWjg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/WZnBJRRYQ3xHlpi0RhyOxOveWjg\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/WZnBJRRYQ3xHlpi0RhyOxOveWjg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/WZnBJRRYQ3xHlpi0RhyOxOveWjg\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sinking ship that is CNN is at the center another humiliating debacle. The network has apologized after it broadcast the N-word during a tory about a 103-year-old Black woman who still gets behind the wheel to get around her Pennsylvania hometown. And you thought the time they fell for the 140-year-old hot dog hoax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}