Twitter Billboard Leads to Epic Fail

A TV station in Alabama is learning that live Twitter billboards sometimes deliver unintended consequences.

While we can’t vouch for its authenticity, South Carolina-based blog The Palmetto Scoop claims a University of South Carolina graduate driving through Mobile, Alabama snapped the shot below and sent it in.

The WPMI-TV billboard displays Tweets from the LOCAL15NEWS Twitter account, with this Tweet resulting in the juxtaposition.

Update: The photo has been confirmed as real and WPMI-TV’s general manager and news director were suspended over the incident, reports Rob Holbert.




More:
http://mashable.com/2009/11/29/live-twitter-billboard/

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on a billboard LIVE was a good idea? I mean really. .

"I swear to God I thought turkeys could fly". . .You know?

If it didn't have the photo of the news anchors, it would have been okay.

Keep in mind that these are tweets FROM the news desk, not TO the news desk, so they have editorial control over what goes up there.

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That seems rather draconian IMO.

I'd think a decision like this would be made by the station owner.

Were those two men typing in the live twitter updates? Some intern who doesn't even know the tweets are going up on a billboard was probably just typing in headlines, as s/he was told to do. Mistakes happen. This doesn't strike me as any more incompetent or premeditated as this:

And that billboard is a waste of time if they're going to tweet routine crime news.

It's a few years old but it might be on YouTube. :rofl: nonetheless

NTV 7 Rapist Search
I have recently found this picture from one website. One thing hit me was it seems like a NTV7 logo at the bottom of the screen. Take a look at the reporter and the rapist sketch.
Wonder if this is real, cause it was aired at ABC news too.
http://www.wahlau.net/2006/12/10/ntv-7-rapist-search/



Wapedia v
Wiki: Marc Brown (journalist)

Marc Alan Brown (born September 29, 1961 in Los Angeles, California) is an television news anchor at KABC-TV in Los Angeles. Brown co-anchors the station's Eyewitness News HD newscasts at 5 pm and 11 pm with Michelle Tuzee. Brown has earned four Emmy Awards, a Golden Mike, an Associated Press and a Radio and Television News Director Association award.

A Los Angeles native, Brown graduated from Narbonne High School in Los Angeles' Harbor City Neighborhood and earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science from the University of Southern California. His first television job was as a reporter at KIEM-TV in Eureka, California in 1984. He went on to report and anchor at KOLO-TV in Reno, Nevada, KNTV in San Jose, California and KFMB-TV in San Diego, California before returning to Los Angeles to begin working at KABC-TV in 1989 as a reporter. He later was named weekend anchor and in 1996 he was given anchoring duties on the weekday 6 pm newscast. The following year his anchoring duties were broadened to include the station's 4 pm newscast and in 2000 he was named anchor of the weeknight 11 pm show. He became the first African-American to become the primary anchor of an 11 pm weekday newscast in Los Angeles. In August 2007, he, along with co-anchor Michelle Tuzee were promoted to the 5pm newscast, in addition to anchoring the 11pm program. David Ono and Ellen Leyva now anchor the news at 4pm and 6pm.
Marc Brown

Born September 29, 1961 (age 48)
Los Angeles, California
Occupation Television journalist
1. Internet Meme

A famous picture exists on multiple sources on the internet depicting Brown reporting on a story entitled "Rapist Search". The sketch of the offender looks very similar to Brown. The authenticity of the picture, however, is unknown.
2. External links

More:
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Marc_Brown_%28journalist%29

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