Daily Beast Amends Controversial Olympics Article
In Rio for the Olympics, London-based Daily Beast staffer Nico Hines gets pilloried.
One loose rule of journalism is: the longer the Editor’s Note, the more legitimate the surrounding controversy. By that measure, the note at the bottom of a Daily Beast article by Nico Hines is medal-worthy.
The italicized annotation from editor in chief John Avlon totals 300 words and ends as follows:
Some readers have read Nico as mocking or sex-shaming those [Olympic athletes] on Grindr. We do not feel he did this in any way. However, The Daily Beast understands that others may have interpreted the piece differently.
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