San Worthington?

Post “Almost 20 years after the first…” edits.

Now, admittedly this is all pretty nit-picky. But five fairly large errors in one article (possibly more that I didn’t catch) speaks volumes about CNN’s editorial review process. It makes you wonder how rigorous their research is on more important topics and bigger headlines. Do they only bother to read the first few sentences of a Wikipedia entry when they’re reporting on world events as well?

I was pleasantly surprised to see that several of the mistakes observed in the comments had been edited this morning. However, the ones that hadn’t been pointed out were still sitting there clear as day, meaning no one at CNN actually bothered to go re-research the article and do some basic editing and fact-checking. That’s just poor journalism, even if it’s a fluff article.

The last thing, and this is probably an article unto itself, CNN’s profile management is completely broken. I struggled through trying to get my chosen screen name and profile image to show up in my profile last night, but sadly after 8 attempts I decided it was a fruitless endeavor and gave up. That’s a big usability fail, CNN.

More:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TedKennedy/story?id=6692022

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/26/obit.ted.kennedy/index.html