Lesson: Don't Edit A Diplomatic Nightmare Into Your Reporter's Work
A fired reporter for Radio Free Asia has won an arbitration that reinstates him to his post with full back pay and benefits, the Newspaper Guild reports. And it’s all because of some lousy editing.
King Man Ho had blogged about an event where Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met two Chinese bloggers.
Ho correctly quoted the bloggers, but subsequent editing—including a headline that called the bloggers “Chinese Web dissidents” and text that implied “too intimate a connection with the U.S.
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