Washington Post Suspends Mike Wise for Roethlisberger Twitter ‘Hoax’
Aug 31st, 2010
By now, everybody knows that news is often broken on social networking sites like Twitter. But Mike Wise, a Washington Post columnist, tried to reinforce this point and teach careless journalists a lesson in an ethically irresponsible way: fabricating a story and posting it on his Twitter account. According to Fanhouse, Wise tweeted that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger would be suspended by the NFL for five games this season .

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