Post's Wise Suspended for Hoax Tweet

I think that's exactly what he is saying...The story got picked up and reported even without a source. I don't know if you can qualify Wise as a source since he is more of a columnist than a reporter.

Just because he's focused more on his columns now doesn't mean he's not a reporter. He's been a reporter for major media (NY Times, Washington Post) for over 15 years. He put himself out there as representing the Washington Post, and as someone with access to information that not many have. I can't find any excuse in what he did.

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

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

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

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.

you've never even RECEIVED a text? do you have that feature turn off?
I don't even know if I have the feature on my phone. I dam sure not going to sit there myself and push all those little letters to send a text when I can just pick up the phone and actually have a conversation with the person.

I don't even know if I have the feature on my phone. I dam sure not going to sit there myself and push all those little letters to send a text when I can just pick up the phone and actually have a conversation with the person.

You've never wanted to simply get a quick answer, or say a quick note, without having to have a whole conversation about it. For example, a text saying I'll be 10 minutes late, is a lot easier than a call that prompts a 15 minute conversation on why you will be 10 minutes late.


As for Wise, it was poorly planned and executed, but the point he was making has some validity.

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.

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.

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.