CNN Editors unaware of the difference between words "ancestor" and "descendant"Man, this kind of thing really gets my goat. I know the internet's a fast moving place, 24 hour news cycle and all that, but this is really shoddy editorial work.
UPDATE: Sent a comment to cnn.com. I'll post any reply they send me. (No, I don't remember exactly what I said in the comment, although I did end it with the hope that their fact checking was better than their headline writing. Heh.)
UPDATE THE SECOND: CNN has fixed the mistake. For the record, the original headline was "Study: House cat ancestor of Middle Eastern wildcat." It has now been changed to "Study: Housecat descendant of Middle Eastern wildcat."
I like to think that I might have had something to do with that...li'l old me, influencing the content provided by a multimillion dollar corporation.... ;-)
