Many of you who picked up an early edition of the Daily News this morning may have noticed a little problem with the sports section. Apparently the newspaper was hit with a glitch that caused all of the text in the sports section to turn to gibberish text and symbols. The cause of the glitch? Apparently it was the Mets sweep of the Cincinnati Reds.
Daily News employee Ken Jenkins explains, "Apparently, when the words "Mets complete 4-game sweep" were entered into the system it caused the proofreading function to overload and effected the entire system. The strange text was only part of it. Computers were shutting down and the entire printing facility lost power for 2 hours."
