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Originally Posted by elly63

Nothing that I can find so far at CBC (no surprise)....

You've mentioned elsewhere that you worked in news in the past, so I assume you already know that one of the primary responsibilities of a news organization is verifiability. When the news first broke, the report came from TMZ - hardly a reliable source:

TMZ: Jerry Lee Lewis is not dead ... as we previously reported.

We're told the rock 'n' roll legend is alive, living in Memphis. Earlier today we were told by someone claiming to be Lewis' rep that he had passed. That turned out not to be the case.

TMZ regrets the error.

To quote HBO's The Newsroom, from the episode that covered the shooting of US politician Gabby Giffords:

"It's a person. A doctor pronounces her dead, not the news."

CBC posted their initial story at 7:41 PM.