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Cnn blames human error orbit mistake Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030417/ap_en_tv/cnn_premature_obits_3 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030417/ap_en_tv/cnn_premature_obits_3 Yahoo! News Thu, Apr 17, 2003 Entertainment - AP TV CNN Blames Human Error for Obit Mistake Thu Apr 17, 4:42 PM ET By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer NEW YORK - CNN blamed human error Thursday for exposing obituary mock-ups that its Web site's designers had prepared for Ronald Reagan (news), Bob Hope (news) and other prominent figures. The mock-ups had been on a development site meant for internal review. But the public briefly had access to them after the password protection got disabled. CNN was investigating the cause of the error, which was discovered and fixed Wednesday. CNN spokeswoman Edna Johnson said technicians were trying to determine how long the mock-ups had been exposed through the development site, which was not directly accessible from the main CNN.com news site. Although the mock-ups — essentially templates that were to be used when a subject dies — were no longer accessible to the public, the search engine Google (news - external web site) still had a reference Thursday to Reagan's, titled "Ronald Reagan Remembered." Another Web site, The Smoking Gun, also had copies of mock-ups for Reagan, Hope, Fidel Castro (news - web sites), Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II, Nelson Mandela, Gerald Ford and Dick Cheney (news - web sites). News organizations, including The Associated Press, routinely prepare obituaries on prominent figures so stories can be run quickly when they die. In 1998, miscoding caused one such article, for Hope, to be inadvertently displayed on the AP's Web site, prompting a congressman to erroneously announce his death on the floor of the House of Representatives. The story did not say Hope had died, but the headline did. The CNN mock-ups do not actually say that the subject had died, although they had a placeholder for the year of death, as in "1941-2001" for Cheney. The write-ups also referred to subjects in the past tense. CNN said only the front page for the mock-ups had been available, with links to biographies and other features inactive. ___ On the Net: http://thesmokinggun.com http://www.cnn.com

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