Michael J. Fox slams CNN after they claim he’s dead
“How do you react when you turn on the TV and CNN is reporting your death?”
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“How do you react when you turn on the TV and CNN is reporting your death?”
Actor Michael J. Fox is alive and well, despite CNN publishing a tribute that gave everyone a death scare, titled "Remembering the life of actor Michael J. Fox." The actor posted to Threads that he is doing fine.
"How do you react when you turn on the TV and CNN is reporting your death?" he wrote in the post. "Do you…A) switch to MNSBC, or whatever they are calling themselves these days, (B) Pour scolding hot water on your lap, if it hurts your fine, (C) Call your wife, hopefully she's concerned but reassuring, (D) Relax, they do this once every year, (E) Ask yourself wtf ? I thought the world was ending, but apparently it's just me and I'm ok. Love, Mike."
CNN had published the tribute on its website, but it was later deleted, and the media outlet had to come out and apologize for the blunder. “The package was published in error; we have removed it from our platforms and send our apologies to Michael J. Fox and his family," CNN said in a statement to TMZ.
The outlet had published both an article and a video as a tribute to Fox's life, which had highlighted interview excerpts and clips talking about Fox throughout his years as an actor, according to Entertainment Weekly. "He came into our living rooms on the small screen each week as Alex P. Keaton [on 'Family Ties'] and eventually onto the big screen as Marty McFly in 'Back to the Future,'" a narrator said in a clip. "But Michael J. Fox had a compelling third act as Parkinson's sufferer and stem cell research advocate."
"His most lasting role may have been as a tireless voice against Parkinson's, a performance the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences honored with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2022," the narrator continued. "In the end, Fox came to understand that his battle against the disease brought out the best in him."
Many also mocked CNN in the wake of the mistake, highlighting how the outlet had to delete the piece from its website.
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X user Daniel Jeong said in a post to X, ”CNN is a joke. How do you report a legend's death without checking the facts? Michael J. Fox has more life and wit in him than that entire newsroom.”
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