I knew CNN reporters were dumb…

… but seriously…

Accord­ing to ravrhi in metaquotes:

From a report on the French riots:

“It’s been 11 days since two African-Amer­ican teen­agers were killed, elec­tro­cuted during a police chase, which promp­ted all of this.”–CNN anchor Carol Lin, Nov. 6

Um. That’d be African-French would­n’t it? Of course, here we stumble straight back into my Mas­ters’ thesis and the prob­lems of labels and lan­guage and cul­tural hybrid­ity that obscures con­nec­tions while high­light­ing others inappropriately.