Associated Press: Tribune’s out-of-date UAL story was revived by clicks on website
September 10th, 2008Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick
The outdated bankruptcy story that caused panic for United Airlines share-holders came back to life because it showed up on a newspaper web site’s ‘most viewed’ section.
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February 24th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
[...] We’ve seen in other – non-RSS related, but similar – cases, how things can escalate when old news resurfaces such as the United Airlines story. [...]