Wait, So There’s Not a Giant Asteroid Hurling Toward Us After All?
Talk about roid rage.
CNN.com probably left some folks a bit confused this weekend after it posted a report of a “Giant asteroid possibly on collision course with Earth.’’
The report was apparently submitted to CNN’s iReport platform, which accepts unsolicited news from “citizen journalism.’’
The news item, which was eerily similar to the 1997 NBC mini-series “Asteroid,’’ was ultimately determined to be false and taken down from the site.
Screenshot of the message iReport users saw after the story was removed.
Of course, had an editor looked a bit closer at the report, which scheduled the “potentially lethal encounter with the Earth’’ for March 35, 2041, this non-news likely would have never been published to the site in the first place.
We’ll keep watch to see what other news of impending doom can penetrate CNN’s fortress of online editors.
h/t Jim Romenesko
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