Sometimes you can’t just give it away

Posted By katie allison granju

Jack Lail notes that the “junior level” NBC affiliate staffer who posted the news of Tim Russert’s death to Wikipedia before NBC had reported it has been fired.

Jack says of the firing:

It was fine for NBC to hold the information until the family was notified, but it’s ludicrous to be flabbergasted by being beaten on news you were holding. And it’s plain dumb to fire someone for getting it first and right.

I actually disagree with Jack on this one. If you are a low-level journalist working for an NBC affiliate, and you are aware that NBC has a proprietary scoop in-house, it’s pretty odd for that journalist to take that info and essentially give it away to another media outlet (Wikipedia) without consulting the station’s decision-makers. I think that shows incredibly bad judgment.

Jun 23rd, 2008

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  1. David Oatney said,

    Katie;
    I agree with you on this.

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