CNN Blames Blunder on Human Error

Wired News ^ | 4-17-2003 | Wired News

[John Twenty 28]

CNN says the obituary mock-ups for Ronald Reagan, Bob Hope and other prominent figures were exposed on its website due to human error. The specific cause of error was discovered and fixed Wednesday.

This is what it says on the Wired News headlines page. Honest. Check the link.

[John Twenty 28]

Hate to tell you, kid. You made a big mistake.....Yeeeoooowwwwwwww.

[mhking]

Sounds about right - files like that reside on the staging servers, and should go through a webmaster/AP before going live; someone in the "Fishtank" (the name for the Interactive newsroom - it had a massive glass window out onto the CNN Center atrium) goofed.

[Indy Pendance]

Right, tell it to business, and the corrective actions we have to take when our company screws up automobile parts. Where's the corrective action plan. Human mistakes are unacceptable....( or according to regular liberal business practices) So, humans can only mess up when a lib makes mistakes....

[Beck_isright]

They should have posted an obit for CNN - "1981 - 2008 The pioneer in cable news, CNN failed when AOL-Time Warner sold them to the CBC. Sadly, no one watches them either and with less than 30,000 regular viewers, all located in Hollywood, this was not enough to justify paying the $50,000 per year salary for Paula Zahn's makeup person much less anyone else's wages."

[Eala]

As much as I detest the Clintonista News Network (which I do not see very often as we don't get cable), I have to say it's no surprise that the media keep draft obits on hand. It would be foolish to do otherwise, given the amount of time & effort to produce such for a high profile person.

But it's got to be highly embarrasing to have one's take prematurely exposed...

[scooby321]

I Love AOL they destoyed CNN

[callthemlikeyouseethem]

To have the obits of the living online "before their time" is unacceptable, no matter the practice of being a step ahead. JMVHO.

[martin_fierro]

More CNN brilliance:

[Arthur McGowan]

I hope somebody at CNN noticed that the quotation from Reagan's 1994 farewell letter was dated "1984" on their mock-up obit.

[yooper]

So they're trying to get the work done ahead of time. The early bird catches the worm, as they say. Then again, the SECOND mouse gets the cheese.......

[Choose Ye This Day]

Those are classic! 18 times the speed of light! Dang, no wonder it disintegrated!

[mass55th]

What did CNN know and when did they know it?

[lilylangtree]

CNN needs to be shut down.

[hadit2here]

Since it's inception, I have stated that absolutely nothing of any value has ever or does ever come from AOHell. I now stand corrected! If they can rid the world of the Commie News Network, it would redeem all of their other failings, in my eyes.

Well, maybe some of their other failings.

Then again, I could always just say that absolutely nothing of any value has ever or does ever come from AOHell and CNN!

[Only1choice____Freedom]

>>"CNN Blames Blunder on Human Error..."

I thought they were talking about their decision to not print news that hurts Hussain.

Now I don't know which one they are talking about, there have been so many.

[WaterDragon]

Why would anyone know what was on their web site?

If the maker of your favorite candy bar was discovered listing entirely fictitious ingredients on the package, concealing some pretty unsavory ingredients you wouldn't normally eat if you were starving, would you then rant and rave about it but continue buying and eating their candy?

The logic of watching CNN or going to their website simply escapes me. It can't be for information. Are their fictitious news reports providing some sort of entertainment?