Should Bloomberg Vet Have Been Fired for Headline Flub?
The editor-in-chief of USA TODAY has tweeted words of support this morning for John Pickering, a Bloomberg News editor fired last week for inputting and tweeting out an incorrect breaking-news headline.
The Thursday mistake, which misreported a trial verdict pertaining to former Goldman Sachs vice-president Fabrice Tourre, was noted by The Huffington Post. On Friday, Keith J. Kelly of the New York Post followed with the news that Pickering, the editor responsible for the upside-down headline, had been fired.
The tweet from Callaway seems to reflect a general sentiment in the media ranks that termination was too harsh a penalty for the mistake.
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