No damn kidding. I mean, if wearing white to a wedding means you’re stealing the bride’s thunder, showing up dead to a funeral? Way to bring the focus back to yourself, drama queen!
Not so much stupid as embarassing, but in the 2000(?) World Series when the Diamondbacks won, the NBC correspondant walked out on to the field to speak with a few of the players. One of the players (Steve Finley?) hugged a woman and kissed her on the cheek, then went to join his teammates. On the way the NBC guy pulled him aside to talk.
NBC: Was that your mother?
Finley (surprised): No, that was my wife! 
This one was on local news years ago. I wouldn’t have believed this slip of the tongue, but I had it on tape and double checked.
The news anchor meant to say that something was a virtual time bomb. Instead, he said that it was a virtual tampon.
Maybe he did little that directly influenced the French, but perhaps he took other actions or made other policies that they disapproved of. The French probably are’t just interested in what happens to them.
From CNN.com: Bodies in lake ‘suspicious’, say police
Whoa, don’t jump to any conclusions there, Chief.
Rilch, this may strike you as a “duh” moment, but police have to be careful about how they present cases to the press. An off-the-cuff remark made at the beginning of the investigation may invite scrutiny later, so they learn to qualify their statements with “alleged”, “suspicious”, etc.
The press uses this language so it doesn’t get sued.
Robin
Well, deep down I knew that. But I couldn’t help hearing that statement in Chief Wiggum’s voice.
A few years back, some research team was trying to extract DNA from King Tut’s body. A news station decided that if you’ve got some DNA, you could make a clone (good journalism there). They decided they needed some ‘man on the street’ interviews to see if this was a good idea.
One man said, “No, I don’t think they should clone King Tut ‘cause he wouldn’t understand microwaves and stuff.” sigh
I suspect that they ought to get their “man in France” to stay out on the street instead on hanging out in the lower dives (or vacationing in Bulgaria, or whatever).
A simple search: from news.google.fr, enter “reagan”. I got dozens of hits on June 6 and June 7 announcing his death and lots of hits from June 13 - June 17 reporting on the funeral or the events leading up to it.
Wow. That was pretty damn funny.
There was a radio station around here that kept replaying a great news snippet. It was during the start of a hurricane and the anchorwoman was giving the broadcast over to their “man on the beach”
“…We now go to our correspondent Al Roker, who’s presently getting blown on the beach…”
Eat your heart out “From Here To Eternity.”