Politico media critic Dylan Byers
Politico media critic Dylan Byers
makes a strange choice of words (my emphasis):
CNN appears to have broadcast the Social Security number and telephone number for George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman who is suspected of having killed Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., last February.
On Monday at 12:16 p.m. ET, CNN broadcast a photocopy of a document that included Zimmerman's address, date of birth, Social Security number and phone number. The image appeared above a chyron that read, "Detective: Zimmerman Seemed Sober." The document aired on screen as it was presented in court to the jury.
Obviously, CNN made a dumb mistake and shouldn't have broadcast the information, even accidentally. But calling Zimmerman a "neighborhood watchman" and saying he's merely "suspect of having killed Trayvon Martin"? Sheesh. That's the kind of thing that's crying out for some media criticism of its own.