NBC NEWS ACCIDENTALLY DECLARES NEIL YOUNG DEAD, NOT NEIL ARMSTRONG

Black Book ^ | 08/25/2012 | Jessica Wakeman

[SeekAndFind]

Whoopsies. Someone is getting spanked over at the NBC News right now. While publishing the news that astronaut Neil Armstrong passed away today at age 82, the headline writer accidentally wrote "Neil Young" had died. Fret not, Neil Young is alive and well and probably off getting stoned somewhere.

A bad error? Like Jeremy Lin's "chink in the armor" bad? Yes … but it is not difficult to see how errors like this occur in a 24/7 news cycle when every outlet is competitively rushing to be the first one to report breaking news. (Whether they're first to report right or wrong news is a different story altogether.) NBC News reported on Neil Armstrong's death first, which is a feather in their cap.  Yet likely the urgency of breaking the story led the author of the piece/headline writer to click "post" too fast when another read-through would clearly have been a good idea.

My sympathy goes out to whichever poor working-on-a-Saturday-in-August soul is getting in trouble right now. Getting caught in a big whoppin' mistake — and a screen grabbed big whoppin' mistake, no less — is never fun for anyone.

[tophat9000]

Too bad..I’d trade the dead Neil’s any day

[LS]

I actually think CSNY did a song about the media: “Helpless, helpless, helpless, helpless.”

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

“They tried to do their best but they could not...”

[Mad Dawgg]

"What do you think the chances are the writer wasn’t aware of who Neil Armstrong even was?"

Don't worry they fixed their mistake and wrote an update saying:

"It is believed Mr. Armstrong died of a heart attack most likely brought on by the stress of losing his 7 Tour de France titles due to a doping scandal."

[Aquamarine]

I just had lunch with a friend who is a professional writer who told me that the role of copy editor is being extinguished forcing people to edit their own writing.

Kinda the way it is around here?

[FryingPan101]

“Yeah, Young spent a lot of time at least as high as the moon.”

LOL!

[Fightin Whitey]

One ‘Strong man guiding another in for landing..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5TwT69i1lU

[Oztrich Boy]

Probably the distress of learning his wins were being stripped from him contributed to his death.

[Dartman]

Actually, Neil Young wasn’t too bad until he started hanging around with CS & N. Then his brain went dead.

R.I.P. Neil Armstrong, a true hero. Somedays I’m so glad to be old enough to remember the early NASA successes.

[TigersEye]

Neil Sedaka said to still be feeling fine but he has decided to avoid golfing and planting flags for a little while just in case. He also changed his news channel to CNN.

[brewcrew]

Anybody check on Neil Peart today?

[TigersEye]

What’s the Rush?

[Dixie Yooper]

Neal Young has been dead ever since Steven Stills kicked him out of CSN.

[Average Al]

LOl! At NBC their knowledge of history is their last tweet.

[SeminoleCounty]

With the amount of coke snorted by Neil Young during “The Last Waltz” a few decades ago, one could easily mistake Neil Young for being dead. At that concert, Young looked like “Ted” after that scene in the bathroom with Flash Gordon...with all that coke on Ted’s muzzle

[Jeff Chandler]

“Old man take a look at my moon ...”

[Lockbar]

"Easy to see how a mistake could be made."

LOL!!

[jmacusa]

Looks like the copy guy was “Out On The Weekend’’.

[FreedomPoster]

As it happens, Neil Young playing with The Band during The Last Waltz, doing Helpless, came though on my Pandora channel this morning while I was driving around doing errands. I was quite happy with myself, since it was a self-seeded Pandora channel.

And RIP Neil Armstrong. I very much remember sitting in my grandparent’s living room watching every second of that first moonwalk. It was a very special time.

[Flycatcher]

He packed it in.

He bought a pickup.

He took it down to L.A.