Readers are wondering why The Times seems to be ignoring the situation, which has been picked up by the major wire services and published around the globe.
"You rarely see something of this magnitude at a major wire house," said Lipner.
Some of the major wire houses, including Merrill Lynch, Prudential and Salomon Smith Barney, also run supermarkets of a sort.
Even with reasonable safeguards identity theft occurs, on occasion, across all of the major wire services.
So he went online, and began hitting refresh on all the major wire services, expecting the story to break any moment.
Update 2: Strouthopoulos still says he is none the wiser on who wrote the erroneous release, but PRWeb has issued an acknowledgement of sorts, bringing us up to speed on what happened but not giving much of an explanation: "Even with reasonable safeguards identity theft occurs, on occasion, across all of the major wire services," it writes.
From Politico: "Most notably, the number of American journalists allowed to witness the meeting between Trump and Kim was limited to seven — a smaller group than would usually be present for such a summit, and one that excluded representatives from the major wire services" (emphasis added).
Boston and New Hampshire newspapers and major wire services interview Eddy and find her competent, but Pulitzer is unrelenting.
"AFP has serious, serious structural and financial and operational problems, but the government for now keeps supporting it, so it cannot run into too much trouble in the near future," said a former AFP correspondent about one of the world's three major wire services.
Although the cost of publishing has increased over the years, the price of newspapers has generally remained low, forcing newspapers to rely more on advertising revenue and on articles provided by a major wire service, such as the Associated Press or Reuters, for their national and world coverage.
