People Editor Has a Rough Weekend
For People magazine news editor Stephen M. Silverman, it began Saturday when the Twitterverse started taking notice of a prematurely posted Kirk Douglas obit.
Separately over the weekend, Silverman shared the following Twitter reply to Kentucky journalist Billy Suratt:
Silverman was referring to this maybe-October 1998 item about Bill Cosby. At this rate, a 2014 “Sexiest Man Alive” retraction seems distinctly possible.
The only consolation for Silverman is that we’d be willing to bet (two questionable date-stamps) that the news editor is already in touch with Douglas’ reps for a playful Mea Culpa follow-up.
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