CNN error broadcasts celebrity obituaries

CNN is blaming human error for exposing obituary mock-ups its website designers had prepared for Ronald Reagan, Bob Hope and other prominent figures.

The mock-ups had been on a development site meant for internal review. But the public briefly had access to them after the password protection was disabled.

CNN was investigating the cause of the error, which was discovered and fixed yesterday evening. A CNN spokeswoman said technicians were trying to determine how long the mock-ups had been exposed through the development site, which was not directly accessible from the main CNN.com news site.

Although the mock-ups, still had a reference to Reagan's death, titled Ronald Reagan Remembered.

AP