Jan
4
2006

out of date

One of my morning e-mails is a daily digest of top headlines from the New York Times. I didn’t notice until this morning that while the e-mail is sent around 6 a.m., the information in it is compiled around 2 a.m. This goes a long way toward explaining why one of the top news blurbs today is massively out of date:

12 Miners Found Alive 41 Hours After Explosion
By JAMES DAO
Forty-one hours after an explosion trapped 13 men in a West Virginia coal mine, 12 of the miners were found alive Tuesday night.

What makes it worse is that not only does the story link work, it points to a tragically outdated version of the story. (It came out around 2 a.m. that, in fact, 12 of the 13 miners had died, and the earlier announcement had been a “miscommunication.”)

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The late develoments in the West Virginia coal miners story came at a bad time for many newspapers, after the print deadline. Editor and Publisher has a roundup how papers around the country reported the story. And FishbowlDC points out that the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages offers another good way to browse how various papers treated the story (for today only, as the featured front pages will change tomorrow).

Posted by alykat on January 4, 2006 2:12 PM

The “Today’s Headlines” e-mail included the following editor’s note today:

EDITOR’S NOTE

Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, Jan. 4 included an article, “12 Miners Found Alive 41 Hours After Explosion,” about the mining accident in West Virginia. That article relied on attributed sources, including a named official from the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety, and victims’ family members. Later information determined that 11 miners were dead and one survived.

Since this e-mail is compiled at 2 a.m. Eastern time, it did not include this new information, which broke about 3 a.m.

A more detailed explanation of how the events unfolded is included below:

Posted by alykat on January 5, 2006 9:14 AM

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