This episode is completely strange to me. It seems like “they are just bad at math” and made a honest gaffe is no satisfying explanation.
There have to be at least three people who made the mistake, Brian Williams, Mara Gay and the person who did the technical work that made the Tweet appear on the monitor.
A gaffe is a term that’s commonly used to refer to mistakes by a single person.
When I watch that episode it seems to me like the hosts are careful to not say that the numbers in the tweet are true. It looks like they thought it was okay to bring up the wrong tweet and somehow they are not responsible for the factual content of the tweet but the Twitter use who made the tweet is responsible.
It seems like they made a mistake about thinking such a numeric overstatement is okay to make.
This episode is completely strange to me. It seems like “they are just bad at math” and made a honest gaffe is no satisfying explanation.
There have to be at least three people who made the mistake, Brian Williams, Mara Gay and the person who did the technical work that made the Tweet appear on the monitor.
A gaffe is a term that’s commonly used to refer to mistakes by a single person.
When I watch that episode it seems to me like the hosts are careful to not say that the numbers in the tweet are true. It looks like they thought it was okay to bring up the wrong tweet and somehow they are not responsible for the factual content of the tweet but the Twitter use who made the tweet is responsible.
It seems like they made a mistake about thinking such a numeric overstatement is okay to make.