The danger of canned obituaries

Posted on January 5, 2009, 8:00 am, by Craig Silverman, under Online.

Defamer (via LAist) took note of the fact that a pre-written obit for Lena Horne went live on Entertainment Weekly’s website back in December:

A similar thing happened at CNN.com a few years back, except that was an example of mass obiticide.

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  • Charlene

    The danger isn’t in canned obituaries: the danger is putting them on the server where they can be accessed remotely. That’s what storage media is for.

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