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Sent To The Printers Too Soon
Sent To The Printers Too Soon
In the 2016 United States presidential election, the magazine Newsweek printed a special edition with the title "Madam President" (with Clinton's face on the cover) and sent them to stores. Following Donald Trump's upset victory, they had to recall those copies.
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In 1948, the Chicago Daily Tribune printed nearly 150,000 papers with the erroneous headline, "Dewey Defeats Truman"1 . Needless to say, Dewey didn't win the presidential election.
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1 : John H. Johnson. Everydata: The Misinformation Hidden in the Little Data You Consume Every Day, 2016 [B035]