Yesterday evening, NBC News reported that the Obama Administration has known for years that millions of Americans would lose their insurance plans, contrary to President Obama’s infamous promise. The Drudge Report featured NBC’s article in a banner headline. Late last night or early this morning, after several mendacious White House officials tried to claim that people aren’t being forced out of their health plans, NBC’s article inexplicably disappeared from its website:
The NBC story on Obama lying now comes up with a "Error 404" message. Obamacare got to them, too!
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) October 29, 2013
Drudge is still linking to the old url–now a 404 page. Think of the lost traffic.
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 29, 2013
NBC’s article then re-appeared with several portions missing:
https://twitter.com/passantino/status/395048780451414016
@FilmLadd 6th sentence of orig deleted starting w "None of this should come as a shock to the Obama administration. "
— Aggress Teh Climate Change! (@SemperBanU) October 29, 2013
@FilmLadd Para 13 added staring w/ "The Affordable Care Act will not affect most traditional employer-based plans, but many…"
— Aggress Teh Climate Change! (@SemperBanU) October 29, 2013
@FilmLadd Para 18 of orig removed. Started w "Heather Goldwater, 38, of South Carolina, says that she received a letter from …"
— Aggress Teh Climate Change! (@SemperBanU) October 29, 2013
At the time of this writing, those paragraphs are back up.
NBC is blaming the problems on “issues” with its “publishing tool.”
Issues with the URL and publishing tool on our #Obamacare story this evening. Now live at http://t.co/XZ9t8GutmT
— lou (@dubois) October 29, 2013
@nycsouthpaw Issues with our publishing tool and URL and then updating. Should be fixed now. Our apologies. New URL: http://t.co/eTFXrqS9jr
— lou (@dubois) October 29, 2013
It appears this was nothing more than a technical glitch.
NBC is kinda non-transparently reconstructing its earlier story. Occam's razor: Probably a technical foul-up and nothing sinister.
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) October 29, 2013
That said, the whole episode is odd.
Do NBC News and http://t.co/5SL5DzlJ6F share the same web vendor? What's the dillyo?
— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) October 29, 2013
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