Who is this guy?

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on February 20th, 2006

The saga of Club Soda Kenny continues!

This time, the website for a television station in Florida picked up the story off of United Press International (“Cop Suspended for Night Job as Comic”).

It’s the same story as appeared in the NYT, but worth noting for two reasons:

1. They chose to put it in their “Weird News” section

2. It was accompanied by the above picture.

We’re not quite sure who this guy is. We’re fairly certain it’s not Club Soda Kenny, though. The URL for the pic indicates that it’s a stock photo from Clear Channel (the owner of WPMI, NBC 15, on the Florida panhandle) from their “Miscellaneous” files! We suppose that the web editor plucked it from hundreds because it fit his idea of a what a comedian looks like.

Isn’t there some sort of law against this? Well, at the very least, a website or a news outlet should go to some lengths to stress that the fellow in the picture isn’t the guy talked about in the story. (That’s why you’ll often see “File Footage” over an old piece of video when they don’t have any fresh video on the subject.) This doesn’t help the credibility of the folks at WPMI. (And, if the guy above is a clean comic, he won’t appreciate being identified as a suspended cop who is “a standup comic specializing in bathroom humor.”)

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