When officials at ETV News realized the faux headline was going out over the air they quickly pulled it and Dubya rejoined the realm of the living. So what happened? Apparently an editor at the station wanted to try out the scrolling news ticker (you know that thing that rolls along the bottom of the screen on CNN and such - except during commercials, since nothing must detract from the purity of the ad experience). As a test headline, they typed in “George Bush is dead”, only instead of hitting the ‘preview’ button that would have only shown the graphic in the studio, they hit the ‘air’ button and sent the fake headline out to thousands of South Africans watching the news (ETV is calling it a ‘misbroadcast’).
Ironically it is now another thing Bush 43 shares in common with Bush 41. When the elder Bush was president CNN received an erronious news flash that he had died. Their on-air anchor had just begun to announce “tragic news regarding President Bush,” when a producer realized the error, shouted “No!” off-camera and abruptly cut off the reading of the news flash - just in time.
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