Chicago PD - Oops WBBM-TV "We're idiots! Film at 11!"
Seems that there are many ways to find a suspect. There's Television, Telephone and Telemundo...one thing don't Tell-a-Chicago TV station that your suspect looks like Ice Cube the rapper, especially if you're the Chicago PD. Mmmm, b-a-d move.
The Chicago Police Department has apologized for issuing a community alert that described a man suspected in a series of sexual assaults as resembling hip-hop artist and actor Ice Cube after a local television station aired one of the rapper's videos during its evening newscast.
Police are searching for a man who sexually assaulted three woman in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood, a trendy area on the city's North Side.
A police alert released Sunday described the man as a black male in his mid-20s who "resembles the popular rap artist 'Ice Cube.'"
The Chicago TV station owned and operated by CBS, WBBM-TV, subsequently broadcast one of Ice Cube's videos when it reported the story Monday night.
Excuse me, over at WBBM, you there, here's a zoo-related headline for you: Talking Trained Monkey in White House. (News at 11?)
The Chicago PD ought to be rightly ashamed of themselves for this little bit of stupidity, but the TV station "news" folks ought to be triply ashamed of themselves. What a bunch of idiots.
posted by Jo Fish on 07.23.03 at 10:27 PM
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As a member of the television news industry... I'm ashamed this could possibly happen. How do people like that even get a job? How many people does that have to get past before it makes air? Who was the first to say, "You know... maybe we should show an Ice Cube video!"?
