Only Problem? Clinton HASN'T SPOKEN YET! And won't until after 10pm ET tonight. Time travel media, gotta love it! After all, why wait to report on the storyuntil after happens?
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Bill Clinton took center stage Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention in hopes of persuading middle-class voters that Barack Obama could turn a troubled economy around the same way the former president did two decades ago.
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The entire article, which notes that Elizabeth Warren and Sandra Fluke also spoke, is written in the past tense, about events that have yet to occur:
The second day of the convention included speeches from a slew of elected officials and supporters, including Elizabeth Warren, a candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, and Sandra Fluke, who sparked criticism from conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh after testifying before Congress in support of Obama’s decision to require some religious employers to offer access to contraception.
This is just sloppy. And there's no excuse for writing a story about an event you haven't bothered to actually cover, and then posting it online in advance of the event.
UPDATE: They've now updated the title of the article to "Clinton to say Obama can bring back economy", yet the URL shows the original past-tense title: www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/09/05/166226/clinton-says-obama-can-bring-back.html