Posted on 08/28/2008 4:28:11 PM PDT by library user
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The story, marked “Hold for release – Do not use”, was sent in error to the news service’s thousands of corporate clients.
The stock obituary was published "momentarily" after a routine update by a reporter, and was "immediately deleted", Bloomberg said.
Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003, but there is no suggestion that the news wire has recent news on his health. Most media organisations regularly update their pre-prepared obituaries of newsworthy figures.
The obituary contained blank spaces for Jobs’s age and cause of death to be inserted.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Would love to have heard Jobs’ first reaction.
Ah, shoot! Thanks for pointing out the dupe.
Everybody knows that one day they’ll die. A public figure would also expect that people will write about him on the newspaper or other media. It’s probably nice to see what other people might say about you when you die, before you actually die.
Smells like someone trying to manipulate the stock price.
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