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Excerpt from the article on CNN (probably edited by the time you read this): http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/26/americas/fidel-castro-obit/index.html http://edit

Excerpt from the article on CNN (probably edited by the time you read this): http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/26/americas/fidel-castro-obit/index.html http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/26/americas/fidel-castro-obit... "One Castro or another has ruled Cuba over a period that spans seven decades and 11 U.S. presidents. Fidel Castro outlived six of those presidents,[[[NOTE: change to seven if George H.W. Bush dies before Castro]]] including Cold War warriors John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan."

chipperyman573 10y ago
https://archive.fo/BzXdt https://archive.fo/BzXdt and https://web.archive.org/web/20161126060559/http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/26/americas/fidel-castro-obit/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20161126060559/http://edition.cn... for when they edit it out.
micaksica 10y ago
What I love the most about this is that journalists write obituaries long before a significant figure actually dies to get on top of it ASAP.
raldi 10y ago
The software they use to draft these should be given support for a special tag that it will refuse to publish to prod an article containing.
- pp19dd 10y ago
  I worked on software like this. You wouldn't believe how many variations of a typo can escape parsing.
drukenemo 10y ago
That's exactly one of my main criticisms about Castro - his self-belief that only him could govern Cuba. Was he immortal, he wouldn't have stepped down from power, I believe.
- jobigoud 10y ago
  Let's focus this subthread on the meta note left in the article and was published.