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Glenn Beck : The Queen Has Died
News
Jun 3 2015, 9:26 am ET
Queen Elizabeth Death Rumor Spreads After BBC Reporter's Tweet
by Alastair Jamieson
Oops! BBC journalist accidentally tweets death of queen 1:20
LONDON — A behind-the-scenes rehearsal of how the BBC will handle the death of Queen Elizabeth II ended with an apology Wednesday after one of its reporters mistakenly tweeted that the British monarch had passed away.
Ahmen Khawaja, a reporter working for the BBC's Urdu-language service, posted on Twitter that the 89-year-old had been taken to hospital. A second tweet announced: "Queen Elizabrth [sic] has died."
This incorrect tweet was "swiftly" deleted, the BBC said.
The initial report was picked up by media outlets including CNN Newsource and German newspaper Bild.
However, when NBC News alerted Buckingham Palace to the tweets, a spokesman said that the queen was not only alive but carrying out public engagements.
It is not clear exactly how the mistake happened but the U.K.'s publicly-funded broadcaster was staging an internal drill on Wednesday to examine its readiness for the queen's death, a routine event staged by many news organizations.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/queen-elizabeth-death-rumor-spread-after-bbc-tweet-blunder-n368951
OOOPS, false alarm.
Please delete.
News
Jun 3 2015, 9:26 am ET
Queen Elizabeth Death Rumor Spreads After BBC Reporter's Tweet
by Alastair Jamieson
Oops! BBC journalist accidentally tweets death of queen 1:20
LONDON — A behind-the-scenes rehearsal of how the BBC will handle the death of Queen Elizabeth II ended with an apology Wednesday after one of its reporters mistakenly tweeted that the British monarch had passed away.
Ahmen Khawaja, a reporter working for the BBC's Urdu-language service, posted on Twitter that the 89-year-old had been taken to hospital. A second tweet announced: "Queen Elizabrth [sic] has died."
This incorrect tweet was "swiftly" deleted, the BBC said.
The initial report was picked up by media outlets including CNN Newsource and German newspaper Bild.
However, when NBC News alerted Buckingham Palace to the tweets, a spokesman said that the queen was not only alive but carrying out public engagements.
It is not clear exactly how the mistake happened but the U.K.'s publicly-funded broadcaster was staging an internal drill on Wednesday to examine its readiness for the queen's death, a routine event staged by many news organizations.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/queen-elizabeth-death-rumor-spread-after-bbc-tweet-blunder-n368951
OOOPS, false alarm.
Please delete.
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