CNN Apologizes for Calling Big Bear Mayor a Hoax
At one point during Tuesday’s frenzied coverage of the Christopher Dorner standoff, the following was added to CNN’s live blog:
[Updated at 5:34 p.m. ET] In posts at 5:06 p.m. ET and 5:09 p.m. ET, we reported apparent information from Big Bear Lake mayor Jay Obernolte. We have learned that the man we spoke to was not the mayor, so we’ve removed the information. We regret the error.
But today, around noon eastern time, those 5:06 and 5:09 p.m.
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