Unfortunate typo of the year: Nightline tweets that 'shooting victims were shit'

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.