Velocity Alert: The Most Cringe-Worthy News Fails of 2013

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THIS STORY IS ABOUT TO GO VIRAL

The Most Cringe-Worthy News Fails of 2013 Just because you're responsible for reporting the news doesn't mean you can't be the news. News anchors and reporters alike made plenty of headlines this year for their gaffes, hot mic snafus and awkward on-camera moments. See also: TV Reporter's Double F-Bomb Leaves News Anchor Speechless While the slip-ups may go down in YouTube infamy, some cost journalists their jobs. How does Mashable know what's going viral? Mashable built a system called Velocity, which scours the social web, collecting lots and lots of data around how people are engaging with published articles. It then pulls all of that data back to Mashable, dumps it into our own predictive engine, and predicts which articles are about to go viral. Read more at Mashable.com ▶ Mashable, Inc. is a California Corporation. P.O. Box 64 New York, NY, 10159-0064

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