Several alert visitors who were on the web site of the Food Network late Thursday evening noticed that the winner's picture for the Next Food Network Star had been posted. The page revealed that Aaron McCargo had won the show, and it included video from his upcoming show "Big Daddy's House." The site also included exit interviews from the two runners-up. The winner's show was also among the pull-down list of network shows available on each page of the site.The pages were removed after several hours, but not before screenshots of the info began popping up online. The Food Network issued a brief statement on Friday, acknowledging the mistaken posting:"FoodNetwork.com experienced technical difficulties last night. As our viewers have seen on The Next Food Network Star this season, many twists and turns have taken place during the show.
"While there has been a lot of chatter on various online food blogs as to why this happened, several webmasters at major media outlets I spoke with said that it can be a very easy mistake to make."Typically, a site as robust as foodnetwork.com would have a staging area. That's a section where you can assemble changes to the site in advance, without them being visible to the public," said one web site managing editor. "The advantage is that you can thing make a number of pre-arranged changes to the site with a click or two. But as you can see, the disadvantage is that someone can make a mistake, and post sensitive info in advance of when it should be public."
And I was upset that I missed Food Detectives which came on right after!
Oh well!
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