It may well have been President Barack Obama who ordered the elite the US Navy Seals to go and take out Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, but for several media outlets, this dramatic development out of the blue led to a host of unfortunate gaffes. Sample some of these headlines: “Obama dead”, “Obama shot and killed”, “President Obama is in fact dead”, “Obama bin Laden dead” and what have you. For many broadcast journalists it was the proverbial slip of the tongue, having to frequently deal with the names of Obama and Osama in the same breath. A network as reputed as BBC had a ticker saying “Obama dead” when the news was just breaking.