{"id":868,"date":"2012-07-30T10:01:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T14:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=868"},"modified":"2012-07-30T10:01:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T14:01:45","slug":"cnn-apologizes-for-playing-song-titled-stupid-girls-ahead-of-sarah-palin-segment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/07\/30\/cnn-apologizes-for-playing-song-titled-stupid-girls-ahead-of-sarah-palin-segment\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Apologizes For Playing Song Titled \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcStupid Girls\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Ahead of Sarah Palin Segment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Palin\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/files\/2012\/07\/Palin-300x187.jpg?resize=300%2C187\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\">CNN has apologized for what it says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153was a poor choice\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of music to accompany a news story.<\/p>\n<p>The story was about Fox News contributor and former GOP VP candidate <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/Sarah-Palin-profile.html\">Sarah Palin<\/a><\/strong>, who was visiting a local Chik-Fil-A fast food restaurant. The song was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stupid Girls,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Pink. Some viewers noticed the correlation, and complained vocally.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/sarah-palin-chick-fil-a-cnn-355724\"> received a statement <\/a>from CNN apologizing for the incident, which it says was not intentional.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The music selection was a poor choice and was not intended to be linked to any news story,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a CNN spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We regret any perception that they were planned together.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Introducing the segment after the intro, CNN Sunday Morning anchor Randy Kaye said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sarah Palin is apparently hungry for chicken and controversy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>New Career Opportunities Daily: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/joblistings\/?c=rss\">best jobs in media<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>via TVNewser <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/cnn-apologizes-for-playing-song-titled-stupid-girls-ahead-of-sarah-palin-segment_b139500\">http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/cnn-apologizes-for-playing-song-titled-stupid-girls-ahead-of-sarah-palin-segment_b139500<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN has apologized for what it says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153was a poor choice\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of music to accompany a news story. The story was about Fox News contributor and former GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin, who was visiting a local Chik-Fil-A fast food restaurant. The song was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stupid Girls,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Pink. Some viewers noticed the correlation, and complained &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/07\/30\/cnn-apologizes-for-playing-song-titled-stupid-girls-ahead-of-sarah-palin-segment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CNN Apologizes For Playing Song Titled \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcStupid Girls\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Ahead of Sarah Palin Segment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[285,6,227],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-alex-weprin","tag-ifttt","tag-tvnewser"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-e0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}