Here we go again, another story that got rolling on Twitter, picked up steam, never got verified and turned out to be wrong. Joe Paterno did not die Saturday afternoon. How did this giant screw-up happen and what should journalists learn from it?
The managing editor of OnWard State the Penn State student blog, resigned over the false tweets: read the letter to readers.
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