Everyone’s a winner: CBS News error sees Spain and Netherlands lift World Cup
July 12th, 2010Posted by Laura Oliver in Online Journalism
All is not lost if you’re a Netherlander – CBS says you’ve won the World Cup. At time of writing the story below was still live on the CBS news site:
And on the CBS World Cup news site, everyone’s a winner:
July 12th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Proof that the media write their stories before going to press. Just sayin’…
July 12th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Sorry, before the story happens, I meant! I’m often told that a journalist will have his or her story wrapped up before meeting with interviewing people and so on. It seems they had the story all worked out ‘just in case’ Netherlands won and then someone slipped and published it (what an embarrassment).