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CNN apologises for 'Obama' typo
03/01/2007 11:30 - (SA)
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| Senator Barack Obama acknowledges the crowd at a US state Democratic election celebration party. (Jim Cole, AP)
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New York - CNN apologised on Tuesday for mistakenly promoting a story on the search for Osama bin Laden with the headline "Where's Obama?"
A spokesman for Illinois Senator Barack Obama, a potential Democratic presidential candidate, said the apology was accepted.
The blunder came on Monday evening on Wolf Blitzer's news show The Situation Room. Both Soledad O'Brien and Blitzer offered separate apologies during CNN's morning show on Tuesday.
CNN called it a "bad typographical error" by its graphics department.
"We want to apologise for that bad typo," Blitzer said. "We also want to apologise personally to Senator Barack Obama. I'm going to be making a call to him later this morning to offer my personal apology."
Tommy Vietor, Obama's press secretary, said he appreciated the bloggers and activists who brought the error to light so quickly and helped make sure it was corrected.
"Though I'd note that the 's' and 'b' keys aren't all that close to each other, I assume it was just an unfortunate mistake, and don't think there was any truly malicious intent," Vietor said.
Obama says he is still considering whether to join a field of Democrats contending for the party's 2008 presidential nomination.
If he does enter the race, his middle name might also prove troublesome. Republican operatives are already referring to him by his full name: Barack Hussein Obama.
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