Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/11/27/fox-news-accidently-clai.html
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The little slip-ups make more sense when you see this footage of the Fox News bullpen…
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Hear! Hear!
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Was he eaten by Wolves?
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ETA: I will readily admit to being completely ignorant of the context of that one.
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/95308
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It’s common for news organizations to keep updated obituaries for well-known living people (and occasionally accidentally hitting Post instead of Save).
This doesn’t seem to be that kind of mistake.
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And Santa is White.
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This doesn’t seem to be that kind of mistake
Why not? That was my first assumption
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It wasn’t Jimmy Carter’s obituary that was accidentally posted. It was detail in a story about George H.W. Bush, and it’s hard to see how even a cut-n-paste could do it. My guess is fingers on autopilot.
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“This is more or less what happened during the Carter presidency.”
With a sword like that he will never die!
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mmm - most likely what got printed was a canned article, which EVERYONE has for all sort of celebrities, including former presidents. It is supposed to be 98% ready to go, just need to change a few things. Every year someone, somewhere posts one of these prematurely.
In the Queen of England’s case, they have a whole protocol for what happen when she dies, and the various news agencies there actually have dress rehearsals for it from time to time.
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Yeah, I figured it was a case of an intern being tasked with updating these just-in-case articles, and the pipeline messing it up.
And in the true spirit of Christ, Carter forgives Fox their transgression…
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Noam gets on to Carter after about five and a half minutes, but I’ve cued it to begin where he starts discussing Ford, as the problems of Carter are related to those of Ford.
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I’m sure this is exactly like the kind of mistake they make (over and over again) when they identify a Republican politician involved in a scandal as a Democrat…
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Interesting read from last year during the Brexit/Presidential election time period.
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Just like Jesus.
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