Posted on 04/15/2018 5:04:58 PM PDT by conservative98
CBS News erroneously published an online obituary Sunday afternoon for former first lady Barbara Bush, whose family announced earlier in the day that she was in failing health.
The story’s headline read “DO NOT PUBLISH – Former first lady Barbara Bush d*es at age 92 DO NOT PUBLISH.” It was briefly published on cbsnews.com, then taken down.
The first lines of the story read, “Barbara Bush, the witty, gregarious matriarch of a political dynasty that propelled two of its members to the White House and dominated Republican politics for decades, has died after a series of recent hospitalizations. She was 92. A Bush family spokesman said Bush passed away peacefully in her home, surrounded by loved ones.”
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"The report of my death has been greatly exaggerated".
From his long years in the newspaper business, he had other good quotes in this vein. One of my favorites:
"If you do not read the newspapers, you are uninformed.
If you do read the newspapers, you are misinformed".
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