Oops! MSNBC screws-up screen scrolls

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow

Goofs and gaffes are bound to happen to any TV news crew.

But those news networks that scroll words across the bottom one-third of the screen – sometimes referred to as "chyrons," after a leading company that makes digital broadcast graphics – are just asking for trouble.

Take, for example, MSNBC's coverage of France's 2012 presidential election. The video feed revealed former French President Nicolas Sarkozy campaigning against a blue background emblazoned with the slogan "La France Forte," or "Strong France."

While Sarkozy was at the podium, however, MSNBC's chyron across the bottom of the screen read, "Prostitute speaks."

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The network later apologized for the error.

Sometimes, the flub is simply a matter of mixed-up timing, such as video cutting to another image or figure while the caption below still refers to a previous news segment.

Other times, however, the questionable wording smacks of questionable objectivity.

In February, for example, MSNBC was reporting on President Obama's remarks before the Democratic National Committee. The chryon read, "The King's Speech."

A video of 21 MSNBC chryon flubs, compiled by the Washington Free Beacon, catches the notoriously left-leaning network in all kinds of gaffes, from mistimed to misspelled to unmistakable political bias: