CNET News.com: Images: Top Web news gaffes
Sunday, 21 September 2008, 10:22
… including recent online news goofs like the undated story about United Airlines' (2002) bankruptcy, the Steve Jobs obituary, and the LA Times calling Hillary as Obama's VP. Oops.
Readership Institute: United Airlines story shows how software combined with human error can have frightening results
Saturday, 13 September 2008, 09:28
Rich Gordon pulls together the story of how a six-year old archive story appearing on a local paper's site managed to damage United Airlines's share price this week.
Washington Post: 2002′s News, Yesterday’s Sell-Off
Friday, 12 September 2008, 07:20
"The light-speed wipeout is a powerful reminder of how quickly bad information can spread via the Internet to a trigger-happy Wall Street that is willing to dump millions in stock before checking the facts. It exposed how Bloomberg's influential brand name is vulnerable to bogus content — the old article was posted to a Bloomberg subscription service by a Florida investment adviser, one of Bloomberg's many "third-party content-providers."
InformationWeek: Microsoft Blog: Old News Is Not Good News
Friday, 12 September 2008, 07:18
Dave Methvin on the United Airlines storY: "Hold on a minute! The whole reason to keep a person in the loop is to apply the kind of reasoning that an automated news-bot like Google's can't ever hope to use. The Post generously referred to this incident's errant person as a "reporter," but I think that's an insult to most reporters. This person had the job of searching for bankruptcy news. Is it unreasonable they should know some basic details about United Airlines, a major company that emerged from its real bankruptcy in 2006?"
