Washingtonpost.com Accidentally Releases Rehnquist Obituary
Anyone else notice this in their feedreaders from yesterday?
A Rehnquist retrospective by Charles Lane titled "Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies/Retires" showed up, along with a bio piece with a general byline titled "A Justice's Journey". Unfortunately, they only syndicate what you see there, and the full articles are 404, of course.
Oops. I guess there is a new intern. Editor: "Don't *smack" press "smack" the "smack* 'publish' "smack* button *smack* until *smack* I "smack* tell *smack* you!"
Update: They're protecting the intern's identity:
A headline and article summary that appeared to indicate that Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist had either retired or died was inadvertently published on washingtonpost.com and through a washingtonpost.com RSS feed on June 23. The headline and summary have been retracted and no longer appear on the site.
Yes, we know.
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wow! that *is* an oops and a half!
I love that even a swift recovery/retraction isn't fast enough...
:)
Posted by: acm | June 23, 2005 at 01:06 PM
I wonder who else they've already done obituaries for...
Posted by: Gib | June 23, 2005 at 02:38 PM
Each of the nine, certainly. Most prominent politicans. It's just amusing to see it in advance.
Posted by: Mithras | June 23, 2005 at 02:45 PM