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Friday, January 14, 2011

Journalistic objectivity suspended briefly at Miami Herald

The Miami Herald's journalistic objectivity was suspended briefly Friday when a tweet was sent out that looked like it was written by a 14 year-old school girl rather than an objective journalist.


"It was deleted less than 4 minutes after it was first posted, but has been retweeted repeatedly -- lucky me, I got a screencap!," writes a sharp-eyed Random Pixels reader.

A few minutes later an adult took charge of the Twitter feed and sent out this correction:

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3 comments:

  1. CLJJanuary 14, 2011 10:23 PM

    It's very important to make sure you're logged into the correct Twitter account.

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  2. BillJanuary 14, 2011 10:29 PM

    Good point!

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 15, 2011 10:07 AM

    It might have been written by a 14 year old. They've gotten rid of half the staff and are using interns and underpaid, overworked, inexperienced "journalists."

    ReplyDelete

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