CNN runs bogus story saying asteroid has 1 in 2.04 odds of destroying Earth

It says a lot about CNN. iReports has the CNN logo on it. CNN has been dipping its toe — its whole foot, actually — into "breaking news" that is not actually breaking, misleading headlines, and low-brow flotsam.

Maybe iReport is a good idea but only if it produces genuine news. If not, then maybe it's a failed experiment.

This is similar to how Forbes is behaving lately. Most of the articles on the 'Forbes' domain name are just citizen journalism and thinly veiled PR pieces. I can't believe they (CNN and Forbes both) are okay with that type of brand dilution purely to aggregate terrible content.

It's published under the CNN name, which lends a whole lot of credibility to the story. Even if CNN is not taking responsibility they probably should, and this incident is a good illustration of why.

Yup. Unpaid crowdsourced unverified 'news' is all that ireport.cnn.com does, and apparently a majority of the internet can't distinguish that kind of garbage from actual reporting.

Maybe it says something about CNN, but it probably says more about the people willing to read an obviously flawed and false article and then act like it was "reported" by some kind of authority.

The screen grab clearly shows the CNN logo at the top of the story. CNN has exclusive rights to the trademark and allowed it to be used as a banner for the story.

It is true that the sidebar says "not vetted for CNN," but this is perhaps too subtle of a warning given the complete lack of vetting.

The odds of the asteroid destroying Earth are the same as their being a March 35th.

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