Wow. As Twitchy reported, the media has gotten plenty wrong in its rush to report on the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., but this tweet is particularly unfortunate.
https://twitter.com/BrendanOByrne/status/280099551103295489
Can't even with this typo #Proofreading101 MT @Nightline: Connecticut School Shooting Victims Were Shit as Many as 11 Times
— Shawn Pasternak (@ShawnCP92) December 15, 2012
proofing is good before posting. RT @Nightline: Connecticut School Shooting Victims Were Shit as Many as 11 Times http://t.co/4e3YRMLJ
— Shelly (@Shelly373) December 15, 2012
https://twitter.com/aurosan/status/280097797162799104
Nightline was quick to delete it and issue a corrected tweet.
https://twitter.com/Nightline/status/280099757131698176
Update:
The corrected tweet was deleted as well, with no acknowledgment of the original error or apology to the victims’ families. Yes, it was a typo, but sweeping it under the rug and pretending it didn’t happen was not the appropriate way to handle this.
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