Greatest online edit ever

[sigma7]

WLWT editor fired over insert

"A WLWT-TV online editor acknowledged Tuesday he was fired after a paragraph belittling reporter Raegan Butler was inserted into a story on the station's Web site.

"The comments were placed into the last paragraph of a July 19 news report concerning a body identified in Portsmouth. Station officials said the story was discovered about 10 minutes after posting, but took days to remove from Google and Yahoo caches."

The paragraph, in all its glory, can be found here. Warning: calling it "belittling" is a severe understatement.

Comments

**eyes pop**

[beeform]

That was pretty harsh! Whew!

[kauricat.livejournal.com]

So, um, any word on who actually put it in there? Was it the guy who got fired this time, or was it an angry peon? Sounds like someone got turned down for a date or something. Sheesh.

[kateshort.livejournal.com]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn. That's harsh.

I also wonder whether the editor caught it. Or whether he inserted it when someone suggested the prank. Or whether he wrote it himself.

[rewil.livejournal.com]

!!!

Oh, that's excellent. I'm irritated sometimes by updating the TV folk's Web site, but never to a degree that I could get fired over.