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South Dakota's largest newspaper erroneously reports McGovern death
http://www.argusleader.com/article/20121018/UPDATES/121018014/Technical-error-mistakenly-announces-McGovern-s-death?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CHome&gcheck=1&nclick_check=1A story stating that former Sen. George McGovern had died was mistakenly published today on the Argus Leader’s website.
A software company that searches the content of websites operated by the Gannett Corporation, including the Argus Leader, detected an unpublished story in the Argus Leader content management system and created a link to the McGovern story without permission.
That link was automatically placed on an unrelated story today on the Argus Leader’s website, which a reader then posted to the social media site Twitter, which was seen and distributed by other users of Twitter and other social media sites.
