Bloomberg Can't Stop Pronouncing Live People Dead

Posted by Bess Levin, Sep 08, 2008, 2:38pm

Apparently last week's little gaffe, wherein Bloomberg ran Steve Jobs's obituary to the ire of many over at the Apple, was not an accident. Rather, it was the inaugural item in a new gag series started by the newswire. The premise is simple yet brilliant: each week, a person or company is picked out of a hat and Bloomberg will run a story saying he/she/it has passed on. Laughs will ensue. Today the second party to be honored was United Airlines. Shares of the company plunged up to 76 percent when the 'berg carried a report from Income Securities Advisors that said the airline had filed for bankruptcy protection. (Though the company has indeed had some bankruptcy trubs in the past, it exited that situation in February 2006.)

Who will be next to (fake) die on Bloomberg's watch? We're guessing Lehman Brothers or John McCain* though you'd probably know better.

False Report Sends UAL Shares Plunging [Dealbook]

*Sorry, that was uncalled for. Not that funny when it's entirely plausible.

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Posted by guest, Sep 08, 2008 2:40PM

RIP Billy Mays. May your salesmanship carry you into the hereafter.

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Posted by guest, Sep 08, 2008 2:44PM

"passed on," Bess. "Passed."

I'm not sure I can figure out what "past on" means.

I hope you can relax later.

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Posted by guest, Sep 08, 2008 2:46PM

Who's the SOB that caught the $4/share long opp? Good for them - nearly tripled their dough in minutes

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Posted by guest, Sep 08, 2008 2:46PM

Next week its going to be dead people reported living. Zombie FDR announces a second New Deal?

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Posted by guest, Sep 08, 2008 2:51PM

@2-- if you can't figure it out, then how'd you know "passed on" would be correct?

oh, right. your jackass super-powers.

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Posted by guest, Sep 08, 2008 2:55PM

Vince Offer.

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Posted by guest, Sep 08, 2008 3:11PM

John McCain. 1936-2008. He was delicious.

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Posted by guest, Sep 08, 2008 3:13PM

I just received a text message from our man Mordy at Penn on my new Blackberry. He said this week’s blog will be "off the hook for schizzle my chinamanizzle." I don't want to steel any of his thunder but Saturday night I received a call from Mordy and I heard some girl in the background scream, "get you’re dick out of the mash potatos Mordy."

Can't wait for Friday.

SPODE

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Posted by guest, Sep 08, 2008 3:14PM

Bess i love you but where the hell is JC today.

We all worked yesterday and most of us were at our desks at 7:00 am.

He better be in lockdown somewhere getting one hell of a story for us.

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Posted by guest, Sep 08, 2008 3:16PM

@9-- if by 'on lockdown somewhere getting one hell of a story for us' you mean 'passed out curbside his favorite bar,' then yes, that's exactly what he's doing.

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Posted by guest, Sep 08, 2008 3:18PM

JC's live webcam: http://tinyurl.com/66p7z8

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Posted by guest, Sep 08, 2008 3:19PM

@ 5. ...you know what a Philistine is?

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Posted by guest, Sep 08, 2008 3:36PM

dont see how that comment was uncalled for but racist jokes againt asians arent?

lets be equal opportunity haters here please.

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Posted by guest, Sep 08, 2008 3:41PM

@ 9 that is exaclty what i meant.

JC's committment to getting an exclusive knows no bounds.....

However, he has been know to run into cars and we all know how that turned out.

Perhaps like my frigging assistant he is getting a colonoscopy?

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Posted by guest, Sep 08, 2008 3:43PM

@13, what racist jokes are you referring to?

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Posted by guest, Sep 08, 2008 3:49PM

#11 post of the day.

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Posted by Anal_yst, Sep 08, 2008 4:19PM

@ 11

A-maz-ing!

But seriously, we've all been there, give the guy a break, he must be under alota stress and such...

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Posted by guest, Sep 08, 2008 4:49PM

did jc get run over by a car at some point in his life?

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Posted by guest, Sep 08, 2008 10:25PM

That would explain his fealty to the Law of Ripping Off Consumers.

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Posted by guest, Sep 08, 2008 10:29PM

@18- yup.

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