Cnn and The ‘Godzilla’ Incident what is related for?
this about CNN tweeted today: “RE: questions about a CNN anchor laughing while covering the Japan earthquake, we checked. It appears it was a false post.” Moments later, the network’s Twitter feed added, “We checked on the Godzilla references too. That also appears to be a false post.”What is The ‘Godzilla’ Incident
and the correct is that CNN or the Twittersphere? An analysis of the transcript and the Twitter record by Mashable brings us to the following conclusions:
1) The anchor in question, Rosemary Church of CNN’s International Center in Atlanta, did not make any “Godzilla jokes.” One of her guests, an American eyewitness named Matt Alt, describing the video footage, said “these waves of debris, it is almost like a monster movie.”
Tweets at around this time slammed Alt, misidentified as a CNN reporter or anchor, for making a “Godzilla-esque” reference. Later retweets removed the “-esque.”
2) Church’s words could not be accurately described as “joking”. Her tone, clearly irksome to many viewers, is another question. An anchor with some serious news chops — she covered 9/11 and the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, among other major events — Church also has a bubbly, Australian-accented voice. Some of her statements around 2:15am ET, according to the Twitter stream, may have sounded inappropriately jovial. That’s when the earliest cluster of results for “CNN laughing” appear:
this about CNN tweeted today: “RE: questions about a CNN anchor laughing while covering the Japan earthquake, we checked. It appears it was a false post.” Moments later, the network’s Twitter feed added, “We checked on the Godzilla references too. That also appears to be a false post.”What is The ‘Godzilla’ Incident
and the correct is that CNN or the Twittersphere? An analysis of the transcript and the Twitter record by Mashable brings us to the following conclusions:
1) The anchor in question, Rosemary Church of CNN’s International Center in Atlanta, did not make any “Godzilla jokes.” One of her guests, an American eyewitness named Matt Alt, describing the video footage, said “these waves of debris, it is almost like a monster movie.”
Tweets at around this time slammed Alt, misidentified as a CNN reporter or anchor, for making a “Godzilla-esque” reference. Later retweets removed the “-esque.”
2) Church’s words could not be accurately described as “joking”. Her tone, clearly irksome to many viewers, is another question. An anchor with some serious news chops — she covered 9/11 and the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, among other major events — Church also has a bubbly, Australian-accented voice. Some of her statements around 2:15am ET, according to the Twitter stream, may have sounded inappropriately jovial. That’s when the earliest cluster of results for “CNN laughing” appear:
