Oops! Fox & Friends Accidentally Identifies Elie Wiesel As “Holocaust Winner”
Wow. We all make mistakes and typos. There will probably be at least one in this post alone. However, some typos are worse than others. This is one of those typos. Last week, Fox & Friends had on Elie Wiesel to talk about human rights injustices. However, eagle-eyed viewer Young Manhattanite was rewatching the clip online and noticed that they accidentally combined “Holocaust Survivor” and “Nobel Prize Winner” in the chyron so as to identify Weisel as a “Holocaust Winner.” Again, wow.
Chyron Of The Day: Fox News Covers Breaking Missing Dummy Story
Fox News, 11:38amET:
Before we start this story, we want to make clear that this is real, and not an Onion video or something. Ok so on the afternoon news show Happening Now, Fox News covered the case of a missing ventriloquist dummy. It took an anchor, a reporter and a graphics department that surely had more fun than usual.
Chyron Of The Day: Tiger Woods Is “Back With A Bang”
MSNBC, 10:28amET:
Tiger Woods had a great first round of golf yesterday at the Masters – his best first round ever in the tournament. But which network’s chyron writer was going to take the bold step to make a sex joke with the news? Not Comedy Central – MSNBC.
Chyron Of The Day: Rick Sanchez Is Sad About This Zebra
CNN, 3:29pmET:
Rick Sanchez has some sad news for you, CNN viewers. Remember Lima the Zebra? No?
Well listen, he escaped in Atlanta but now he’s dead. Let Rick soothe your soul with this sad report, set to some Salsa music.
Chyron Of The Day: McCain’s Challenger Was ‘Formerly’ Female, Says FNC
Fox News, 10:09amET (Monday):
Gawker noticed an error yesterday on FNC’s America’s Newsroom – a pretty glaring chyron mistake, that identified J.D. Hayworth, running against Sen. John McCain in the Arizona Senate primary, as a “former Arizona Congresswoman.” Yeah, that’s not right.
Chyron Of The Day: CNN Can’t Spell “Massachussettes”
Praise be to spell check! Without it, we’d reveal ourselves to be poorer spellers than we appear to be. An thankfully, its now ubiquitous; no longer just a feature in word processors – its now built into e-mail clients, blogging software, you name it. But one application that does not yet appear to have spell check? What ever program the CNN graphics department uses for their chyrons.
Chyron of the Day: Fox & Friends Explores Pres. Obama’s Bowing Problem
Fox News, 8:14amET:
Several blogs picked up the story of Pres. Barack Obama appearing to bow yet again over the weekend. Only this time it wasn’t with a foreign dignitary – it was with the Mayor of Tampa, Florida. Fox & Friends used this opportunity to explore all the bowing this President has done since he was elected.
Joan Rivers on Larry King: Air Travel A Nightmare, Airport Agent A “Moron”
On last night’s Larry King Live, Joan Rivers was not pleased about her treatment at a Costa Rican airport. Thanks to a mixup at the ticket counter, she was held back by airport security while her family flew home to the US. Rivers wasn’t afraid to show her indignation: she called the agent who detained her a “moron idiot” and speculated that the woman was “premenstrual.”
Chyron Of The Day: The San Francisco Sea Lions Hate America
Fox News, 11:40amET:
Look what you did, America? You made those famous sea lions at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco go away. Thankfully, Fox News is all over this story.
Chyron of the Day: Dr. Nancy Asks If Tiger Woods Is A Sex Addict
MSNBC, 12:20pmET:
“What’s up with all those women?” asked Dr. Nancy Snyderman today on MSNBC, during her discussion about Tiger Woods and the increasing number of names being associated with the billionaire golfer. And she has a theory: sex addiction. And some other theories.
Chyron of the Day: Bad Golf News Puns Begin In Tiger Woods Story
Fox News, 12:14pmET:
It took about 12 hours for the initial reports of the serious nature of Tiger Woods‘ car crash to turn into more questions than answers. It took another 12 before news anchors began making bad golf puns – as is par for the course.
Chyron of the Day: Sean Hannity Goes “Rouge”
Fox News, 9:04pmET:
Sometimes a chyron misspelling is particularly glaring because it accidentally makes a separate point. And rarely the misspelling serves to reinforce the exact opposite point. Thus was the case last night on Sean Hannity’s 9pmET FNC program. But besides the misspelling, there was also a serious discussion about the viability of Sarah Palin as GOP contender.
Chyron of the Day: Dr. Nancy Bravely Questions Women’s Athletics
MSNBC, 12:50pmET:
By now, everyone has likely seen the video of the hair-pulling, punching female college soccer player who has been suspended indefinitely. Dr. Nancy Snyderman took this as an opportunity to delve into the topic of whether women athletes are just too darn aggressive and emotional these days.
Chyron of the Day: Neil Cavuto Learns How To Force Open Your Door
Fox News, 4:09pmET:
Today Neil Cavuto devoted an entire section of the A-block of his Fox News show Your World to a discussion about how best to remove a door. This is politically analogous to the “closed door” sessions that are occurring right now regarding the health care bill. But, really, it was about doors.
Chyron of the Day: The World Is Going to End Soon, Maybe
Fox News, 10:53amET:
You know that whole ‘world is going to end in 2012′ thing? Well Fox News spent a segment discussing it this morning. The conclusion – this is probably not going to happen. But the chyron suggested the possibility was out there (via HuffPost, via Mike Madden).
This Exists: 21 Awesome News Chyron Fails
As loyal Mediaite readers know, our own Steve Krakauer keeps tabs on some of the best, worst, and most puzzling cable news chyrons in his Chyron of the Day series.
Over at BuzzFeed, Matt Stopera has put together an excellent collection of news caption mistakes. Here are just a few:
Chyron of the Day: CNBC Already Not Completely Sure Who Their Boss Is
9:27amET, CNBC:
We do a lot of these Chyron of the Day posts, and we usually try to avoid the simple spelling error. But we had to do it here, because of the context. In a report by Bertha Coombs about her boss’ boss’ boss, GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, the CNBC chyron had ‘Immelt’ spelled wrong.
Chyron of the Day: Thanks, George W. Bush, For Saving The Economy
Fox News, 4:03pmET:
There were a lot of stories yesterday about the Dow closing above 10,000 again, but no one took the creative tactic employed by Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto. Hey, this recovery is great and all, but can’t we thank former Pres. George W. Bush?
Chyron of the Day: Fox & Friends, Hooters Edition
Fox News, 8:59amET:
Morning Joe has Starbucks. Fox & Friends has…Hooters? At least they did this morning, as five Hooters girls made an appearance at the very end of the Fox News morning show. It’s Wingsday, people.
Chyron of the Day: CNN Cuts To Chase – “Honduras Is A Mess”
CNN, 3:46pmET, Tuesday:
Rick Sanchez has a unique anchoring style on CNN at 3pmET, and his chyron writers do too apparently. Yesterday he teased a segment about the situation in Honduras, and didn’t pull punches. The lower third highlighted how it “is a mess.”
Chyron of the Day: It’s Time To Brush Up On Tsunamis
Fox News, 3:28pmET:
There is a potentially tragic story coming out of American Samoa right now, as reports are coming in of a tsunami hitting the region after a 7.9 earthquake. All the cable news networks have been covering the story, with increased frequency as more news comes in. But sometimes, even in serious stories, the lower third’s raise eyebrows.
Chyron of the Day: Tyra Banks Spills All On Larry King Live
CNN, 9:06pmET (Tuesday):
We missed this on Tuesday, but there were so many jaw-dropping moments in Larry King‘s interview with Tyra Banks we had to put up something. The chyron here spoils the big surprise – Tyra reveals her real hair! But what we don’t get from the image is when she forced King to touch it. Also – Tyra’s past life as a ‘fat person.’
Chyron of the Day: What’s The Name Of This Rambling Libyan Leader?
All cable news networks, all morning:
The leader of Libya has now completed a more than 90-minute speech at the United Nations, with CNN, Fox News and MSNBC taking it in full (well almost – FNC cut out a few minutes before). It was rambling, accusatory and at times fairly incoherent. But now we must ask the important question – how do we spell this guy’s name?
Chyron of the Day: CNBC Knows President Clinton So Well
CNBC, 4:17pmET:
Maria Bartiromo interviewed former Pres. Bill Clinton on CNBC today ahead of the 5th annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. The discussion ranged from global health to education in poorer nations. But also, there were girls.
Chyron of the Day: You And Stephen Baldwin Have “Problems”
3:28pmET:
Semi-stars…they’re just like us! Rick Sanchez teases a segment today featuring his interview with Stephen Baldwin about some financial woes. The chyron was kind of brutal.






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