Yesterday, our fearless leader Alex appeared on “Inside the Net,” a podcast by Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur.  In it, they talked about closed captioning and how even those were riddled with errors.  (Check out Inside the Net 16, which features PodZinger, here.)

It reminded me of the classic closed-captioning error on ABC’s 4/23/2003 World News Tonight, which reported in its closed caption feed of Peter Jennings, that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was “in the hospital for the removal of an enlarged prostitute.”  ABC later issued a formal apology to Greenspan.

When Greenspan’s wife, NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell, was asked about her husband’s enlarged prostitute, she said:

 He should be so lucky.