CNN conflated bin Laden’s image with Obama in a 2007 ad

Evidence

The most glaring early example occurred as far back as January 2007, when CNN broadcast a picture of Osama bin Laden in an advertisement for a feature the network was running about him and captioned it, “Where’s Obama?” After an outcry, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer reported that he had “personally” called Obama to apologize for the mistake; a campaign aide said Obama accepted the apology and believed the incident had been a mistake—even though the letter “B” and the letter “S” lie quite a distance apart on American keyboards. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 605

Categorization

• CANDY: The keyboard-distance jab makes this a neatly quotable, darkly funny anecdote for light conversation.