08-13-2016, 05:05 AM
RgrF wrote:
The Beast editors were silent about Nico Hines future with the organization.
http://www.latimes.com/local/education/l...story.html
The Daily Beast was asked to share details about the editorial process that led to the publication of the story, but it declined, directing the Times to the statement.
Good publicity after a big blowup that brought a massive amount of new traffic to the site. No boycott. Their advertisers must be very pleased.
The Beast is not an organization known for its ethical reporting. An editor probably came up with the idea. An editor surely approved this in advance and an editor approved it for publication. I would not put it past them to have planned for this option if it blew up.
"As a newsroom, we succeed together and we fail together, and this was a failure on The Daily Beast as a whole, not a single individual. "
So, they'll ride it for awhile and then I give it no more than two weeks before Nico Hines gets a raise or promotion where they can say he's no longer in that field of reporting without revealing that they rewarded him for taking the fall.