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What's to prevent this from happening at another GCI paper?
McGovern, 90, was admitted Monday to a Sioux Falls hospice suffering from a combination of medical conditions due to age that have worsened in recent months.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Sioux Falls | Paper falsely reports McGovern death
What's to prevent this from happening at another GCI paper?
McGovern, 90, was admitted Monday to a Sioux Falls hospice suffering from a combination of medical conditions due to age that have worsened in recent months.
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Gotta love that story that implicitly blames "the Gannett Corporation" [sic].
ReplyDeleteIf you can't get your own boss's name right, how can you be expected to keep straight the quick versus the dead?
So a third-party got into the INTERNAL database, and literally pulled a story out of the paper's ass? Or can anybody search for future obits, which we all know are sitting on the shelf waiting to be dusted off.
ReplyDeleteYou can't listen to radio without hearing ads for internet security and identity thieves. Am I missing something, or does there seem to be an easy way into the news database? Authorized vendor or not.
Can you imagine if it had been someone people weren't expecting to die? The president... Oprah... Princess Kate... Lindsey Lohan....uh, scratch that last one.
ReplyDeleteThe robot did it.
ReplyDeleteSo you all think it's impossible huh? Crap happens. Why do you all dance with joy when a mistake occurs? Do yo think your peers in SF are dancing?
ReplyDeleteIt's a known issue within the system that "unpublished" articles are out there for the public, they're just not made visible.
ReplyDeleteOf course, Google, etc, don't care what's visible - they crawl everything they're told to crawl.
If Gannett hadn't chased away the people who learned this lesson earlier, they wouldn't be running into it again.
Who's dancing with joy? We're pointing out the fallacy that anyone can do more with less, or that technology can create a better product than another set of eyes.
ReplyDeleteThere's also a huge dollop of relief. There but for the grace of God...
Somewhere in this screw up there is probably an intern with his or her finger on the button. No offense to interns, but Gannett has to stop cutting corners and put serious and accountable professionals in charge. Stop filling jobs with interns, part-timers and inexperienced (low-cost) staffers. Try not laying off everyone over 50 or above a certain pay grade and you might not see all these embarrassing errors in all of your newspapers, including your flagship, USA Today. I see the same think on television news...ridiculous mistake after mistake, killing all credibility. No wonder why trust in the media continues to decline.
ReplyDeleteA link without permission? Are they that Internet illiterate? Do they really believe that one needs permission to link to a story?
ReplyDeleteThat story reads like it was dictated or written by an editor who doesn't fully understand how the Interwebs work. Gannett has some of those.
ReplyDeleteWhat an "innovative" way to drive people to the site. Unique visitors were well above last year! Randell rocks
ReplyDeleteOf course, if you click on the link in this post, the story flashes off and a pay-wall note pops up. Search for the story, and when you click on that, another pay-wall note pops up. Glad to know what's important about this site.
ReplyDeleteFor once, a Gannett paper is ahead of the curve.
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