First we have debate coverage before the debate. Now …
Folks, if you don’t understand the difference between DRAFT mode and PUBLISH mode … or if you don’t maintain separate DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION environments, you just plain ol’ freakin’ don’t deserve to have an Internet site. Or connection.
At the very least, you need to have an editor who vets and approves anything that gets posted online.
At this hour, President Bush has won re-election as president by a 47 percent to 43 percent margin in the popular vote nationwide. Ralph Nader has 1 percent of the vote nationwide. That’s with 51 percent of the precincts reporting.
So reports WBAY TV, Action 2 News, the local ABC affiliate in Green Bay. Or so says an AP by-lined story on their web site.
Yeesh.
(via BoingBoing)
UPDATE: AP takes the blame credit, claiming it was just a “test article” that WBAY grabbed by mistake. Cute correction, though.
See above.
The conspiracy theorist in me worries about this. They don’t do “test articles” in news services; the only items that are usually written ahead of time are obituaries.
If this election turns out by this margin, then we have something happening that isn’t pretty.
Well, of course, if it’s a good conspiracy, the numbers will now all be adjusted to be different. Or else this article and all references to it on the Internet will just dissap