First of all, I'm a "he." Second of all, if the writer got the hospital name from a member of the Obama family, then it wouldn't be his error. Since UPI admits it was his error, it follows that he did not get this piece of misinformation from the family member.
If you can't follow that argument, I suggest you take formal logic 101.
How did the writer make the error?
By trusting an unreliable secondary source, such as Wikipedia, that he had no business trusting and should have verified but didn't. That is usually how reporters make errors in fact. This wouldn't be the first time misinformation on Wikipedia has made it into a mainstream news outlet.
More than one article, not just UPI, has said Obama was born at Queens hospital.
I am aware of only two: the UPI article, and an article in a high school student newsletter. If you are aware of others, please do point them out. Otherwise, kindly stop claiming that multiple news outlets were made this error.
So.
You know, you are one obtuse poster.
When I say there's more than UPI's article or the newsletter there's is more. You are easy.
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"Kenya's East African Standard, in an Aug. 24, 2006, article titled "From Young 'Barry' to Top American Senator," previously said of Obama: "The Harvard Law School and Columbia University graduate was born at the Queen's Medical Centre in Honolulu in Hawaii, where his parents were studying at the East-West Centre of the University of Hawaii in Manoa."
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=104292