About the Marc Steiner Scoop

Yes, it's true that Marc Steiner came out first with the resignation news. But he did it in a badly worded email that stated the Mayor has resigned already, when she didn't. Steiner admits the email was wrong, yet he still states he had the facts right before anyone else did. Maybe. But his email didn't convince anyone; it only added to the confusion, which ended when an hour later, WBAL reported the Mayor had agreed to resign.

It's funny how the ant-looking blogger from the Sun is so passionate about giving Steiner the credit, calling it "a remarkably clean scoop." Maybe the hatred for WBAL, which officially broke the news, is too strong?

After I pointed out in a comment that this was anything but a clean scoop, the ant-looking one was a little bit of a dick about it, calling my comments meaningless and empty. However, he has edited his post since then. There is no more mention of a remarkably clean scoop. Apology accepted in advance, Douche.



Edit (see, Zurawik? it's easy to inform people when you edit something):

So I felt a little weird about it all. Maybe I just imagined Zurawik calling Steiner's email "a remarkably clean scoop"? After all, a commenter on Baltimore Brew writes that Zurawik teaches Media Ethics... A Media Ethics professor wouldn't belittle me for arguing Steiner's email wasn't "a remarkably clean scoop," and then take this phrase out with no mention of the editing (and no apology to the readers).

Without  proof of the editing, I was either crazy or wrong. Probably both. Unfortunately, Google Cache did not have the original editing.

But TweetMeme did:

And here's the current editing from the Sun:

And here you have it. With no mention of editing, without admitting he was wrong in calling Steiner's email "a remarkably clean scoop," and without apologizing to his readers, Zurawik quietly changed his post from

And while he was incorrect in saying that she had already resigned, when in fact a deal was still in the works, Steiner's e-mail was a remarkably clean scoop given all the media outlets competing on the story.

to

And while he was incorrect in saying that she had already resigned, when in fact a deal was still in the works, Steiner's e-mail was a surprising way to first hear the news of resignation given all the media outlets competing on the story.

Well, so much for Media Ethics.