CBS News dumps Shira Lazar's "What's Trending" Web series because of bogus Steve Jobs death tweet
CBS News Ends Relationship With Source of Bogus Steve Jobs Death Tweet
CBS News executives moved quickly on Friday to oust Lazar and What’s Trending from its web site......
Read the full post:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cbs-news-ends-relationship-source-233725
@WhatsTrending:
Apologies- reports of Steve Job's death completely unconfirmed. Live on.
http://twitter.com/#!/WhatsTrending/status/112239081097932800
@shiralazar:
On behalf of all of us at @disruptgroup we sincerely apologize for the inaccuracy that was tweeted earlier today.-EP/ Host @WhatsTrending
http://twitter.com/#!/shiralazar/status/112268750262239232
@andrewbaron:
Chatted w/ @shiralazar to learn it wasn't her or her producer who wrote the Steve Jobs tweet: techme.me/C2V1 @CBS should reconsider.
http://twitter.com/#!/andrewbaron/statuses/112849644891021312
One of What's Trendings last stories on CBSnews:
Read more: Why Everyone Just Thought Steve Jobs Died
http://gizmodo.com/5838845/cbs-trending-twitter-feed-briefly-reports-death-of-steve-jobs
Steve Jobs death tweet costs Shira Lazar her CBS News gig
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/09/10/steve-jobs-death-tweet-costs-shira-lazar-her-cbs-news-gig/
Wow, she is Canadian.... who knew.....
ReplyDeleteAll the What's Trending Twitter links now seem to be re-directed to their FB account https://www.facebook.com/WhatsTrending instead of the CBS pages which have been removed.
ReplyDeleteI remember when new media use to investigate stuff before saying anything? They didn't always get it right but at least they tried, unlike now.
ReplyDeletePerez Hilton "breaking the story" that Fidel Castro has 'died' and getting on every mainstream outlet on the planet out of it and the massive sponsor deals he landed because of that was a huge game changer. Now "citizen journalism" is just a mess.
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