'Obama is dead'
BBC among news channels which made basic error reporting Bin Laden's death. 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. Mistake: The BBC and U.S television networks incorrectly reported that Barack Obama, right, was dead rather than Osama Bin Laden, left. 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. 'Obama shot and killed,' Norah O’Donnell posted on Twitter, citing NBC Chief Pentagon Correspondent Jim Miklaszewski as her sou...