Deadline Hollywood apologizes after publishing story about VP Mike Pence's coronavirus test result

Doug P. | 8:36 PM on October 08, 2020

Ever since President Trump tested positive for coronavirus and others in the White House followed, the media has had their eyes on VP Mike Pence. Obviously the stories were written in advance, and one of which was published prematurely:

what part of "DO NOT PUBLISH" did the editor not understand? pic.twitter.com/HeHdqltdB0

— tsar becket adams (@BecketAdams) October 8, 2020

Saw this before it got taken down. pic.twitter.com/y2olhy2SRY

— Jeff Palkevich (@palkevich) October 9, 2020

Deadline Hollywood apologized:

Deadline Note To Readers

A draft post of a story about Vice President Mike Pence testing positive for coronavirus that was never meant to publish was accidentally posted on Deadline

Apologies to the Vice President and our readers

More: https://t.co/vq4f0mDN29

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) October 8, 2020

Whoops!

IRRESPONSIBLE & UTTERLY FALSE. https://t.co/28Yv4hWyKB

— Katie Miller (@VPComDir) October 8, 2020

You just really hate to see it when your intern hits publish on the pre-written copy https://t.co/AO30qhozLm

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 8, 2020

Deadline's tweet has caused more problems…since they don't say the VP doesn't have Covid, people are assuming they're just apologizing for publishing too early.

The vice-president, according to a senior administration official, continues to test negative. https://t.co/K0s5SxrHFT

— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) October 8, 2020