“An Internet Site”

A CNN story about the Bush team’s doctored photo (and the impending correction thereof), included the following paragraph. (The person quoted is Mark McKinnon, head of Bush’s advertising team.)

“I didn’t even know it was done,” he said. The doctoring was first revealed on an Internet site. “There was no intention on anybody’s part to try to represent anything that wasn’t true,” McKinnon said.

An Internet site? What’s CNN’s problem with naming it? Can you imagine if it said something like…

“I think blue is a very nice color,” Smith said on a television show. “My living room is blue.”

or

“I bought myself a new car today,” said Jones in an interview in a magazine. “It’s very nice.”

Of course you can’t imagine it; CNN would obviously identify the TV show or the magazine. But perish the thought it would ID a Web site.