Archive for September, 2010

Sep 1st 2010

Worse Fake Tweets Wise Could Have Sent

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Washington Post sports columnist Mike Wise attempted to prove a point on Twitter the other day that no one checks sources anymore, so he wrote that Ben Roethlisberger’s suspension would last five games. While this turned the heads of many and earned him a month-long suspension from his job, it made me wonder how much worse this could have been. Forget Roethlisberger, let’s say he were a Pittsburgh-based journalist, or wrote something about the Redskins, or worse – something about the Caps. There isn’t a piece of Capitals news these days that isn’t devoured by tens of thousands, and had [...]

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