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CNN Accidentally Posts Pre-Death Celebrity Obits

#1 Postby chadtm80 » Sat Apr 19, 2003 11:18 am

CNN Accidentally Posts Pre-Death Celebrity Obits

POSTED: 2:25 p.m. EDT April 17, 2003

NEW YORK -- CNN says human error is to blame for posting of obituaries on its Web site of some famous figures who aren't dead.

The mock-ups were meant only for internal review, but the public got access to them after password protection was disabled.

A CNN spokeswoman says the cause is being investigated.


Another Web site, The Smoking Gun, has posted copies of the CNN mock-ups, for Vice President Dick Cheney, former President Ronald Reagan, Bob Hope, Fidel Castro and Pope John Paul the Second, among others.

News organizations routinely prepare obituaries on prominent figures so they can be released quickly upon word of such a death.

The CNN mock-ups did not say exactly that the subject had died, although they had a placeholder for the year of death, which was said to be 2001. They also referred to the subjects in the past tense.
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#2 Postby weatherlover427 » Sat Apr 19, 2003 1:51 pm

How embarrassing! :oops:
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#3 Postby JQ Public » Sat Apr 19, 2003 2:32 pm

very embarrassing, but funny b/c what would you think if you were on that list. i'd just give up and keel over right there. almost like a hitlist or smthg :o
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#4 Postby sunny shine » Sat Apr 19, 2003 2:50 pm

CNN seems to be withholding alot of info these days.
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#5 Postby southerngale » Sat Apr 19, 2003 7:54 pm

Oops :roll:
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#6 Postby mf_dolphin » Sat Apr 19, 2003 9:10 pm

southerngale wrote:Oops :roll:


I would say that's the understatement of the year! :D
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#7 Postby ColdFront77 » Sun Apr 20, 2003 1:03 am

I remember one morning, several years ago, it was reported that Bob Hope passed away in his California home. Not too many minutes later, the report was corrected; he was perfectly fine preparing breakfast for himself in his California home. Talk about releasing the wrong information!
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