Originally published at: Bloomberg News accidentally publishes its pre-written "Russia invades Ukraine" story | Boing Boing
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This is just the impetus that Putin was waiting for…
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F**k Bloomberg anyway! Even their corrections are behind a paywall!
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Never put pre-written stories in the CMS.
CMS?
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Putin using alt right excuses: “Well, if they’re going to call me an invader, I really have no choice. Here I go!”
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Chekhov’s CMS.
They do keep a file of pre-written fill-in-the-blank obituaries for famous people.
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Reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode where a local newspaper editor unwittingly ends up hiring the Devil as a reporter/linotype operator, and the calamitous stories he prints all come true just after he prints them.
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Always proofread your stories:
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…at time of writing.
Was it a hack?
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The more stupid 2021 version of 1898’s
“You furnish the pictures. I’ll furnish the war.” – Wm. Randolph Hearst to Frederick Remington.
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… I’ll mint the NFT.
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Ok, now I’m imagining the reaction if they published 45’s obit by mistake. 
Is Bloomberg on the “fake news” list? The conspiracy theories about body doubles and clones would be epic!
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My favorite part about that episode was that the characters referred to Burgess Meredith as an “old man” more than 3 decades before he had that role in Grumpy Old Men.
And of course he lived long enough to be in the sequel as well.
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And hopefully TFG would have a heart attack.
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If they’re halfway competent, they surely keep the draft obits out of the editorial pipeline so that they can’t be published accidentally.
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That’s a keeper, for sure.
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