CNN apologizes for accidentally announcing Pele's death on Twitter

Los Angeles - The CNN news organization apologized Friday for accidentally announcing the death of 73-year-old Brazilian soccer legend Pele via Twitter.

"Pele representative tells CNN he is alive and very well," tweeted the CNN show New Day. The Twitter account of the show also said it deleted the earlier erroneous tweet about the soccer player.

"We regret the error and thank our followers for the feedback," the tweet reads, apologizing to its 54,000 followers for the mistake.


-- The Nation 2014-03-29

Did CNN score an own goal?

Probably just a little bit of publicity for Pele.

Probably just a little bit of publicity for Pele.

.. it worked for Mark Twain

Lately, there have been a number of high profile 'deaths' that turned out to be false. Seems to be all the rage these days.

American shit channel

American shit channel

Highbrow compared to Fox news......

And jayjayjay thinks he knows of a better one. They apologize for a mistake and he decides to hang em out to dry. Lucky jayjayjay is perfect and never made a mistake. Inthink this guy is an over nationalist prick to say something so stupid and shallow.

And jayjayjay thinks he knows of a better one. They apologize for a mistake and he decides to hang em out to dry. Lucky jayjayjay is perfect and never made a mistake. Inthink this guy is an over nationalist prick to say something so stupid and shallow. My guess is he prefers bbc.... the news station that only employs pedos.

American shit channel

Highbrow compared to Fox news......

Here is another ....

Surely you cannot, even with a relative qualifier, associate CNN with highbrow?

CNN is still on TV....I thougjt it was canceled due to lack of viewers.

Piers left this morning. America gave him a standing ovation...for returning to England where he belongs.

Did CNN score an own goal?

I thought it was the hand of God that scored the goal, or was that the other fella?

Did CNN score an own goal?

I thought it was the hand of God that scored the goal, or was that the other fella?

Yes it was the other fella: Maradona

And jayjayjay thinks he knows of a better one. They apologize for a mistake and he decides to hang em out to dry. Lucky jayjayjay is perfect and never made a mistake. Inthink this guy is an over nationalist prick to say something so stupid and shallow. My guess is he prefers bbc.... the news station that only employs pedos.

Yea I heard you the first time!!!

And jayjayjay thinks he knows of a better one. They apologize for a mistake and he decides to hang em out to dry. Lucky jayjayjay is perfect and never made a mistake. Inthink this guy is an over nationalist prick to say something so stupid and shallow. My guess is he prefers bbc.... the news station that only employs pedos.

Lovely guy

CNN is still on TV....I thougjt it was canceled due to lack of viewers.

Lack of truth.

Its great to see true democracy at work... a TV "news" channel asks every American with a pulse for their opinion, and then presents it as "news".

Twitter must be the greatest leap forward in collective thinking ever......

This is a wonderful setup for this coming week. Last week, Jon Stewart skewered CNN (again) on The Daily Show and announced that Pele will be on his show this week. His writers are going to have the time of their lives writing this episode. The timing couldn't be more perfect.

I had no idea anyone watched CNN anymore, the news is bad and no eye candy to view also.

There's an awful lot of copy in Brazil

Seems CNN has a History of getting things Wrong and it never seems to 'faze' them in the least.

Anyone see that (in my opinion) 'bought and paid' for interview by that pseudo journalist (what's her name .. ?), recently ... The two participants were stroking each other like a bad porn dialogue.

Welcome to CNN's 'Buy a Point', whether the content is relevant or even factual ... The problem (and at once, the saving grace) is that no one believes either of them anymore.

Popular Voting will take care of one tweeky puppet, and channel searches for actual, factual news will take care of the other ....

CNN is a poor news channel. BBC news much better.

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