BBC blunder: 'Obama dead'

BBC blunder: 'Obama dead'

The mistake was quickly corrected.BBC News accidentally reported that Barack Obama had been killed in its coverage of Osama Bin Laden's death.On the corporation's website a ticker along the top of the screen was accidentally labelled: "Obama dead" before being hastily corrected.The error happened at 11.19pm as the news was just breaking - and minutes before the U.S. President gave a live speech confirming the kill.The BBC however was not alone in making basic errors in its reporting and U.S. TV networks committed a series of embarrassing blunders too.Shortly after 11pm a reporter for MSNBC Tweeted that it was Mr Obama, not Bin Laden, who was dead. -www.dailymail.co.uk