Post's Wise Suspended for Hoax Tweet

[FRPLG]

Holy cow what a dope move. I get that Wise is a wise-cracking type goofball but I always thought he seemed like a self-aware intelligent guy. How he thought this was a good idea...and nobody around him voiced objection is baffling.

[MTK]

Regardless of what you want to call him, source, reporter, columnist, at the end of the day what he did was irresponsible and wrong.

[SkinsLove24/7]

Well based off his credentials I think tagging him as a reporter is correct, and I agree that what he did was irresponsible, wrong and inexcuseable because he represents the Post and it's bad publicity but he did prove his point about social media networks. IMO

[irish]

Originally Posted by SkinsLove24/7

Well based off his credentials I think tagging him as a reporter is correct, and I agree that what he did was irresponsible, wrong and inexcuseable because he represents the Post and it's bad publicity but he did prove his point about social media networks. IMO

I agree. At this point in his career he's not a reporter.

[Chico23231]

Wise is an f*ing jackass anyway, glad he is suspended, wish he got fired. F him

[Longtimefan]

In today's rat race of sports reporting, Wise undoubtedly got caught up in that never ending anxiety to be a first and it cost him dearly. No excuses, lesson learned.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Longtimefan

In today's rat race of sports reporting, Wise undoubtedly got caught up in that never ending anxiety to be a first and it cost him dearly. No excuses, lesson learned.

He wasn't trying to be first though. He was just trying to prove a point. A point which he, as an official member of the sports media representing himself as such is simply unqualified to make.

I mean I get the point he was trying to make, we saw it to some extent when some Saints fan updated Andre Carter's wikipedia page to say he had been traded to New Orleans for a 3rd rounder. Or, perhaps more close to home, I once posted here that I had heard but not could not confirm that Trent Williams had agreed to a contract and it was just undergoing customary league approval. Someone here tweeted that news and it spread across message boards like wildfire. Turns out my info was wrong (premature). Official media, however, took both the Carter report and the TW report and said basically "looking into it, nothing confirmed, have not heard anything" or "we have not heard this"

But there's a greater expectation, or at least should be, when someone like Mike Wise shares information than when say GoSkinsSBXXII does. If Mike Wise was wrong about something, that's one thing. When he deliberately tries to mislead, that's completely another.

[Longtimefan]

Points well taken SS...A mistake I'm sure Wise will not elect to repeat.

[sportscurmudgeon]

There is a world of difference in getting a story wrong and making stuff up that was never true in the first place. Wise did the latter. In journalism there is no excuse for that.

A stunt such as the one he pulled is something one might expect from a young kid early in his/her career working at a small-time outfit. Wise is not a young inexperienced kid and he is working at a newspaper that is clearly one of the ten best in the US.

Plagiarism will get reporters/columnists fired. So will making stuff up - - see Jayson Blair and Janet Cooke (who made up stuff in a Wash Post feature, won a Pulitzer Prize for it and then had the fabrication discovered). Mike Wise walked a VERY fine line here in terms of keeping his job at the Post. Even the Post ombudsman said he was lucky not to have been fired.

Interestingly, if this kind of ethical breech had occurred in a government agency, the Post would probably be leading the parade calling for heads to roll. But when it is one of their "star writers"...

[MTK]

I'm not even sure his point was worth trying to make, certainly not in that manner at least. He's lucky he wasn't fired.

[tryfuhl]

been awhile

had he posted it on the wapo website he likely would've been fired, instead it was just a social media site where he stated his employer