…no matter what the Bloomberg financial newswire accidentally reported yesterday.

As Gawker reports:

The Bloomberg financial newswire decided to update its 17-page Steve Jobs obituary… — and inadvertently published it in the process. Some investors were undoubtedly rattled to see, as our tipster did late this afternoon, the Apple CEO’s obit cross the wire and then suddenly disappear. Jobs’s battle with pancreatic cancer, and speculation over his health, jarred Wall Street earlier this year and continues to be the subject of speculation.

The Bloomberg financial news wire isn’t the first media source to prematurely publish an obituary, but their accidentally published 17-page item offers an interesting glimpse of what the media calls “preparedness reports.”

Gawker’s got the full accidental obit, along with Bloomberg’s bland retraction, here.

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