Gabrielle Sorto, writing for CNN, managed to slip a serious error past the editors. But, the editors are not to blame, they are probably too young to know better.
The purpose of the article was to cover the Chowchilla school bus kidnappers. However, the writer claimed this crime which occurred in 1976, was the inspiration for the movie "Dirty Harry" which was released to theaters in 1971. Did the script writer for Dirty Harry have some means of seeing the future? Hmm..... there is obviously a problem there, somewhere. I'm certain CNN will be deleting this article, as soon as the adults in the room realize how badly they screwed up.
This slip should be warning, the folks working in the media are just as prone to mistakes as anyone else. The titles "journalist" or "writer" do not give someone greater wisdom, knowledge, or intelligence than anyone else. There are far too many people that idolize journalists and members of the media, people like Walter Cronkite or Dan Rather are held to very high esteem by these press idolizers.
If Gabrielle Sorto and his colleagues at CNN can make such a blatant error, by believing that something that happened in 1976 was the inspiration for a movie that came out in 1971, imagine how badly mistaken they can be when discussing a topic that is far more complex.