January 9, 2012

CNN’s Early Start was supposed to do its “Wake ‘Em Up” segment with comedian Chuck Nice this morning. They rang him up a little after 4:30 a.m. his time. Except it wasn’t Nice on the line. Poor guy, whoever he was, got a very early and unexpected wake-up call. And the anchors were pretty embarrassed.

Just take this as a reminder to check those phone numbers and, in the case of TV, dial carefully. Video from Mediaite via Erik Wemple:

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Craig Silverman (craig@craigsilverman.ca) is an award-winning journalist and the founder of Regret the Error, a blog that reports on media errors and corrections, and trends…
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