This reminds me of something that really bugged me about this story on CNN. When CNN reported basically this same story yesterday, the link from their front page read "Former SNL Alum talks Net Neutrality" or something like that....
Yes, Franken started out as a comedian, but he's now an elected United States Senator and should be afforded the same respect as any other Senator. Of course, the amount of respect we give to our senators tends to be vanishingly small (in most cases deservedly so), but we at least give them the dignity of referring to them by their proper title.
I'm probably overreacting, but I was surprised to see a supposedly serious news organization do something like that.
Maybe it is because Senator Franken draws cartoons and sleeps during confirmation hearings that CNN was confused on his official title.
Do we respect a person or a title?
Humans are so advanced. Other animals, no matter how drunk or high their species gets, will be ever be ever to map their genome to find out why they didn't die from it.
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This reminds me of something that really bugged me about this story on CNN. When CNN reported basically this same story yesterday, the link from their front page read "Former SNL Alum talks Net Neutrality" or something like that. ...
Yes, Franken started out as a comedian, but he's now an elected United States Senator and should be afforded the same respect as any other Senator. Of course, the amount of respect we give to our senators tends to be vanishingly small (in most cases deservedly so), but we at least give them the dignity of referring to them by their proper title.
I'm probably overreacting, but I was surprised to see a supposedly serious news organization do something like that.
Maybe it is because Senator Franken draws cartoons and sleeps during confirmation hearings that CNN was confused on his official title. Do we respect a person or a title?
Humans are so advanced. Other animals, no matter how drunk or high their species gets, will be ever be ever to map their genome to find out why they didn't die from it.