CNN’s American Morning ran a feature this morning from Jeanne Moos featuring keyboard cat. Moos usually covers offbeat topics via a quirky and hip reporting style. To be truthful, I usually love her pieces and will almost always suffer through 20 minutes of other news and commercials waiting to see her latest.

This time, however, she’s failed. Failed in an epic way. Here’s the package:

In it Moos says, “. . . the latest web sensation. The Keyboard Cat has become a recurring theme.”

First off, it’s a meme, not a theme, but that’s beside the point. Latest web sensation? Where has she been for the past few years? The original Keyboard Cat (as Charlie Schmidt’s Cool Cat) was posted in 2007, and videos of “Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat” followed soon thereafter. CNN seems to be at least a year behind on this story. This is old news, plain and simple. Oh, by the way, Michael Jackson died.

Fail.

This highlights a larger problem, however. I remember years ago watching a program on “kitchen crank” and its rising popularity. It was touted as a new drug. I had watched people make kitchen crank literally years before. The same with ecstasy and other designer drugs. Somehow it was “breaking news” years later.

Even more hysterical was this news piece on FOX:

The epicness of this failure is beyond words! And that background music! I declare!

4chan was founded in 2003. Apparently it took FOX a few years to learn of their “secret website.” I laughed and expelled cookie bits onto my keyboard when I typed “secret website” just then.

If you don’t know what 4chan is, or any chan for that matter, or happened to not have heard of the keyboard cat, then shame on you. Acceptable excuses for being ignorant of such things include being 1)old, or 2)a Luddite. Regardless, it’s safe to assume you’re not a news correspondent, so you needn’t feel too awfully bad (put down the knife, hun).

Lulz.

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