Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Wrong School

Oops.

Curry, in short, is a respected television journalist by just about any standard — which is why the gaffe she committed over the weekend while delivering the commencement address at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., is all the more shocking.

After taking the stage to launch into the school’s 175th commencement address, she sought to drive home the inspirational content of her speech by ticking off the names of a few of the school’s more illustrious alums. Among the entries on the Curry honor roll: “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl, evangelist Billy Graham, slasher-film director Wes Craven, and United Airlines Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer. There was just one problem: Apart from Stahl, everyone on that list actually graduated from another Wheaton College, the Christian liberal-arts college in Wheaton, Illinois.

You won’t find video or a transcript of Curry’s commencement gaffe anywhere on the Web at this point, because the school has graciously scrubbed all traces of it from the official video and transcript posted on its website. “We didn’t want to broadcast misinformation,” Wheaton spokesman Michael Graca told the Boston Globe, adding that Curry “gave a great speech. She went out of her way to meet with students before her speech and to get information about the college.”

I wonder if she puts the same rigorous research into her journalism.

(12) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1757 hrs
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  1. She must have Googled it…or taken the Michael Scott approach and looked it up on Wikipedia.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 25, 2010 at 1807 hrs


  2. She’s been know to screw up previously.

    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2008/02/04/ann-curry-cant-find-illinois-map

    Belling did a great job hammering this thing in his second hour today.  He knocked Curry, but then knocked Wheaton for bringing in a phony second tier celebrity as the speaker, rather than someone who had accomplished some major feat for humanity or education. 

    What is humorous is that the college has scrubbed the references from their website video.  Here’s hoping some kid took a cell phone video.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 25, 2010 at 1829 hrs


  3. Well who had time to learn where Illinois is when you’re busy getting bopped by your geography teacher in GodGovernment Skool?

    Posted by Jay4Liberty on May 25, 2010 at 1835 hrs


  4. Ann Curry of NBC new is a news reader, not a fact checker.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 25, 2010 at 1912 hrs


  5. I wonder if she puts the same rigorous research into her journalism.

    Just very slightly more than Limbaugh and Hannity.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 25, 2010 at 2024 hrs


  6. I believe she has since made a very public apology for her screw-up. That’s good.

    Posted by Mike on May 25, 2010 at 2135 hrs


  7. And now for this uncomfortable moment from Ann Curry.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 26, 2010 at 0743 hrs


  8. Just very slightly more than Limbaugh and Hannity.

    You are the only one claiming Limbaugh and Hannity are journalists.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 26, 2010 at 0914 hrs


  9. You are the only one claiming Limbaugh and Hannity are journalists.

    Sorry, my bad.  I stand corrected.  Limbaugh and Hannity are not journalists.  They are entertainers. And they put in slightly less research into what they state as does Ann Curry, who is a journalist.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 26, 2010 at 1115 hrs


  10. Who’s the guy on CNBC with the beady eyes, and a head shaped like Sponge Bob Square Pants? Now there’s a Journalist!

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 26, 2010 at 1134 hrs


  11. I don’t know about this beady eyed and square pants head fella, but CNBC actually does have some pretty good people out there, unfortunately they also have some mindless cheerleaders as well.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 26, 2010 at 1209 hrs


  12. My Bad, I guess this Squinty Eyed -Pumpkin Headed Journalist is actually on MSNBC.
    They’re soooooooo lucky to have him!!

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 26, 2010 at 1503 hrs


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