Washington Post Suspends Mike Wise for Roethlisberger Twitter ‘Hoax’

Aug 31st, 2010
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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 .

9500bd48462tweet.jpg Washington Post Suspends Mike Wise for Roethlisberger Twitter Hoax

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