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Something for the conspiracy mongers...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Olsen)
Tue Jun 3 16:01:49 1997
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 12:42:49 -0700
From: Alan Olsen <root@nwdtc.com>
To: Cypherpunks@algebra.com
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Here is an interesting news item. Make of it what you will...
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[arrow] ABC's Rush on Judgment Is a Red-Faced Flub
by Austin Bunn
6:02pm 2.Jun.97.PDT ABCNews.com jumped the gun on the Timothy
McVeigh verdicts Monday afternoon, posting that the Oklahoma Ci=
ty
bombing defendant was guilty approximately an hour before the
jurors had made their verdicts known in a Denver courtroom.
Spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said the error was a "technical glitc=
h"
caused by a misunderstanding about servers used on the site,
which launched just last month. ABCNews.com uses a staging serv=
er
to hold the prepared news before posting it live, but executive=
s
were unaware that the ticker function uploads information live
directly.
"We've never done the ticker updating this way," said Murphy.
Both headlines - "McVeigh Not Guilty" and "McVeigh Guilty" - ra=
n
for an undetermined amount of time. "It was not up for very
long," assured Murphy. "Someone noticed immediately and ...
deleted it from the ticker."
It's common practice for news organizations to prepare alternat=
e
headlines and stories should such a ruling go either way in ord=
er
to get the news out as quickly as possible. But this isn't the
first time an online news operation has had problems with a
high-profile verdict. In October 1995, Pathfinder declared O. J.
Simpson "Guilty" in his criminal trial, moments after the jury
had acquitted him.
From the Wired News New York Bureau at FEED magazine.
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