A few days ago, the New York Times published an article by Joseph Plambeck who wrote about the Washington Post suspending Michael Wise for a month for stating something false on Twitter. While Twitter is a personal venue, the Post said he represents the Washington Post when he writes anything that is an untruth but not labeled as such, essentially. Click here to reads this article Written was: "Mike Wise, a sports columnist at The Washington Post, published to his Twitter account that the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger would be suspended for five games.....On his radio program on Washington’s WJFK on Tuesday morning, Mr. Wise said, “I could give you 10 reasons why I did this and explain what went wrong in the execution. But none of it matters today. I made a horrendous mistake.” .Mr. Wise has been suspended for a month.
Apparently many media people are surfing twitter using it as a news source because most people write the truth. However, it is clearly not to be trusted as a source for fact. The Post's sports editor. a Mr. Vita said "“When you use social media, remember that you are representing The Washington Post, even if you are using your own account, This is not to be treated lightly.”
Naturally it made me wonder that Fox News does about the many false statements its people make. I would say they do nothing and have extremely poor media ethics, not that it seems to bother their listeners. Media ethics are not secret. You, too, can read them here. Have no fear, if you like Fox News, you will not believe them, you will assume they're being followed by Fox without you having to check them and you will still believe Obama is a Muslim and is not a citizen. .
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