Last night, Brian Williams released a breaking story on NBC: that the presiding judge on the Saddam tribunal had been assassinated.
It turned out it was an error: one of the lower judges and a lawyer were killed. Not a major error in the news report, except….
NBC ran a photo of the actual presiding judge in the case, whose identity is supposed to be secret. They had previously run the photo in an earlier report, but had blurred out his face. This time, however, thinking he was dead, they unblurred his face and showed a nice clear shot of him (they might as well have drawn a target on it).
Thanks to Jon Stewart of The Daily Show.