Swedish TV blunder: 'Pope John Paul has died' [View All]

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March 04 2005 at 01:19PM

Stockholm - Swedish public television mistakenly published an obituary for Pope John Paul II on its website, where it remained for more than five hours before it was taken down, the broadcasting company said on Friday.

"This was a very unfortunate mistake," Swedish public television, SVT, spokesperson Johanna Niemi said.

An SVT employee had been working on the pope's obituary in advance when they mistakenly hit a button that posted the text on the website, Niemi said.

Under a picture of the ailing pontiff in an audience with the Swedish king and queen, the website stated: "Pope John Paul has died".

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