Sloppy reporting: #CNN repeatedly describes employees as fired in a report about notices being sent out in error. Sounds like they weren't fired, and sensationalist language detracts from a story of governmental mismanagement.
This is CNN.
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More than half of CDC staffers...
@ontheidiots.bsky.social Coding error? People were laid off due to a coding error? What led to such a phenomenal error, and will it happen again? Where’s the interest in the so-called coding error?
Right, the focus should be on the coding error, the mismanagement that led to this.
But to be clear people were not laid off due to a coding error. I don't know if it's better or worse, but people were told that they were laid off when they really weren't.
It might even speak to a situation where people who weren't laid off, workers that they wanted to keep, might quit because this kind of incompetence is the last straw.
But CNN is not doing any favors with misreporting the layoff part. It just makes people less likely to trust CNN.
