NBC NEWS ACCIDENTALLY DECLARES NEIL YOUNG DEAD, NOT NEIL ARMSTRONG

Black Book ^ | 08/25/2012 | Jessica Wakeman

[SeekAndFind]

Whoopsies. Someone is getting spanked over at the NBC News right now. While publishing the news that astronaut Neil Armstrong passed away today at age 82, the headline writer accidentally wrote "Neil Young" had died. Fret not, Neil Young is alive and well and probably off getting stoned somewhere.

A bad error? Like Jeremy Lin's "chink in the armor" bad? Yes … but it is not difficult to see how errors like this occur in a 24/7 news cycle when every outlet is competitively rushing to be the first one to report breaking news. (Whether they're first to report right or wrong news is a different story altogether.) NBC News reported on Neil Armstrong's death first, which is a feather in their cap.  Yet likely the urgency of breaking the story led the author of the piece/headline writer to click "post" too fast when another read-through would clearly have been a good idea.

My sympathy goes out to whichever poor working-on-a-Saturday-in-August soul is getting in trouble right now. Getting caught in a big whoppin' mistake — and a screen grabbed big whoppin' mistake, no less — is never fun for anyone.

[SeekAndFind]

Let's not confuse the two Neil's. One is still alive...

NEIL ARMSTRONG


Neil Young

[tet68]

Easy to see how a mistake could be made.

[null and void]

Yeah, Young spent a lot of time at least as high as the moon.

[Slyfox]

I just had lunch with a friend who is a professional writer who told me that the
role of copy editor is being extinguished forcing people to edit their own writing.

Looks like they ought to hang onto them.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

One walked on the moon; one sang "Harvest Moon."

[Steely Tom]

Maybe so, but no one should use the internet to get their news because it isn’t vetted.

[Average Al]

Neil, Smeal, they are all the same at NBC aren't they? ;-)

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[tet68]

From the moon they all look the same.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Does this mean Lance Armstrong is still alive too?

[riri]

Incompetence is rampant.

[RightOnline]

I hadn’t heard until I saw this that Neil Armstrong had passed.

What a great man. What a huge loss. A legend.

My condolences to his family, to NASA.

First man to walk on the moon; first man to walk on a celestial body other than the Earth. Wow.

[Chipper]

What do you think the chances are the writer wasn’t aware of who Neil Armstrong even was? I mean he represents one of the great moments in American exceptionalism. We now how that is a “No-No” in modern society.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

FLASH: Coroner declares NBC dead!

[gorush]

Helpless.

[PlateOfShrimp]

Those responsible for the titles, have been sacked.

[liberateUS]

As a “Southern Man” I really didn’t need Neil Young around, anyway!

[TXBlair]

You’re prolly thinking of Stretch Armstrong. He’s still alive.

[HerrBlucher]

LOL! Neil Armstrong, Neil Young, Neil Diamond...whatever, they are all Neil’s, close enough.

Gotta love the Mediots, that have pure sh#t for brains, and they think they are smart.

[mkjessup]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nszR0tfp4Es