Monday, January 23, 2012

Penn State student editor resigns after reporting Joe Paterno died...hours before he died.


Nothing's going right for Penn State these days.

Student editor, Devon Edwards, had it on good authority that sickly--and infamous--head coach, Joe Paterno, had lost his quick bout with lung cancer Saturday night. Edwards reported it, via Twitter. (140 characters of reporting gold, baby!)

Except Edwards was a little too eager. Paterno wasn't dead. Yet. Paterno would die hours later. Twitter is faster at things than Nature is.

Well, reporting something too early is sacrilegious in the world of journalism. National media outlets reported Paterno was dead because a Penn State student newspaper said he was dead (it's like a nerdy version of the game Telephone), so once the big boys got involved and were wrong, well, someone's head had to roll. Cue Devon Edwards.

Today, Edwards resigned as editor of Penn State student paper because he assumed people cared because he has a misguided view of how important his paper is because he has journalistic integrity and would like to have a job someday.

He might be the only person left at Penn State with some sort of judgment between right and wrong.

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