Bob Dylan DIED, MSNBC & Australian TV present say… & then should apologize for mistake

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A seemingly benign information story about Bob Dylan led to an embarrassing fact-check blunder, after a number of tv packages falsely reported that the legendary singer, nonetheless very a lot alive, was useless.

Quite a few retailers carried tales a couple of trove of paperwork as soon as belonging to the musician that had been lately bought for $ 495,000 at an public sale in Boston. The papers included unpublished music lyrics and interviews revealing that the hit music ‘Lay Girl Lay’ was impressed by singer and actress Barbara Streisand. However at the very least two tv networks embellished the story with some simply debunked particulars. 

Whereas relaying particulars of the public sale, Australia’s ‘As we speak Present’ caption referred to Dylan because the “late singer” throughout a Sunday morning section. 

The error went uncorrected for about 30 minutes earlier than host Richard Wilkins issued a correction, noting that Dylan was nonetheless among the many dwelling. 

“About half an hour in the past, within the leisure chat we incorrectly ran a banner in your display about Bob Dylan. It was false. We apologize for any confusion,” he mentioned. 

The Aussie present wasn’t the one main tv program to prematurely broadcast Dylan’s passing. In its personal iteration of the story, MSNBC was much more exact with its ‘faux information,’ reporting that Dylan died “final 12 months on the age of 79.”

MSNBC host Joshua Johnson later issued a clarification, noting that web customers had been fast to name out the community for its egregious error. 

“We by accident mentioned that he died final 12 months,” he mentioned.  “Bob Dylan could be very a lot alive. He turned 79 this 12 months. Sorry about that.”

A minimum of for now, the 60s icon, who received a Nobel Prize for literature, hasn’t commented in regards to the macabre oversights. 

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