A CNN report on Sunday went viral when an international reporter mistook a dildo-covered flag for an Isis banner during coverage of London’s Gay Pride Parade. Now the flag’s creator has unloaded on the cable news network over the gaffe. “But how could a report so hysterical and so clearly false possibly get onto the air, discussed by a terrorism expert?” British artist Paul Coombs, who used sex-toy motifs in his work before, asked in an op-ed published Tuesday on The Guardian. “CNN correspondent Lucy Pawle described my flag as a ‘very bad mimicry’ but the only bad mimicry I could.
- 7/1/2015
- by Debbie Emery
- The Wrap
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