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Several major news organizations, including The Associated Press, prematurely reported the death Wednesday of U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio, who had suffered a brain hemorrhage while driving in suburban Cleveland.
The reports were corrected after a doctor said at an afternoon news conference that Tubbs Jones was in critical condition with limited brain function. The Cleveland Clinic announced later that the 58-year-old Democrat died about 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Various Democratic officials who spoke on condition of anonymity provided the basis for most of the erroneous reports. They were out for anywhere from a few minutes to a half hour on CNN, CBS, Fox and Web sites for The Washington Post and The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer as well as the AP.
The Plain Dealer's story was on its Web site for about half an hour, said Susan Goldberg, the newspaper's editor. She said the newspaper based its report on ''multiple trusted sources'' and a high-ranking local Democratic party official.
Jewish!
''I think there's a lot of soul-searching going on here about this,'' she said. ''Obviously we all feel terrible about it.''
And what about the SOUL-SEARCHING over IRAQ or 9/11?
Where is that, shit MSM?
And when I went back to get the link from the Times' website, the story was GONE!!!
Sorry, readers.
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