"Obama As Osama" - Reuters Blames 'Spelling' Error-Pulls Article [View All]

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Saying it was 'spelling' error, Reuters pulls article that referred to Obama as 'OsamaJohn Byrne
Published: Friday February 15, 2008

In a little noticed flub, the Reuters news agency referred to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) several times as 'Osama' in a widely distributed news article Wednesday, an article they pulled later in the day.

Though transcripts of the original article are hard to find, RAW STORY located one this morning. Many of the corrected articles distributed to news agencies scrubbed the original mistake.

The article was titled, "Obama takes on rivals over economic woes."

The following is reproduced from the cached Reuters article on AOL.
http://209.85.207.104/search?q=cache:LjTeqmcB9pQJ:news.aol.com/elections/story/_a/obama-takes-on-rivals-over-economic-woes/n20080213152709990119+three+weeks+as+her+best+hope+to+stop+Osama%27s+surge.&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us

Reuters attributed the mistake to a 'spelling error.' A rewrite distributed later said it "Corrects spelling of Obama in paragraphs 14 and 18."

Many copies of the newly redistributed articles did not append the correction of the original, including one which ran on Yahoo! Canada and America Online.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/080213/us/politics_usa_politics1_dc

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Reuters_pulls_article_referring_to_Obama_0215.html