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Looking back over the story from a month ago of ERC's chief scientist Mauro Ferrari resigning
The way this was handled makes me really annoyed
Looking back over the story from a month ago of ERC's chief scientist Mauro Ferrari resigning
The way this was handled makes me really annoyed
The FT drove a lot of the coverage
This was its first story late Tue 7 April, updated on Wed 8 April
ft.com/content/f94725…
The FT was also happy to just carry Ferrari's statement
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This was its first story late Tue 7 April, updated on Wed 8 April
ft.com/content/f94725…
The FT was also happy to just carry Ferrari's statement
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FT then followed up with this one later 8 April, which gives the other side too
ft.com/content/588739…
ft.com/content/588739…
So how did each of these do on Twitter?
Varoufakis tweeted out the first, not the second, and said "[EU]'s historic failure is acquiring gargantuan proportions"
A tweet by David Jack about it got >750 retweets
BBC's Katja Adler also tweeted
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Varoufakis tweeted out the first, not the second, and said "[EU]'s historic failure is acquiring gargantuan proportions"
A tweet by David Jack about it got >750 retweets
BBC's Katja Adler also tweeted
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twitter.com/search?q=https…
The second one...
Well, not so much
The FT's own tweet about it got only 21 retweets
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Well, not so much
The FT's own tweet about it got only 21 retweets
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twitter.com/search?q=https…
The ERC's response letter fared somewhat better
A good few hundred responses
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A good few hundred responses
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twitter.com/search?q=https…
And then every Twitter troll around uses Ferrari resignation for their purposes...
twitter.com/search?q=chief…
twitter.com/search?q=chief…
Basically there was a dispute, and he resigned before he was sacked.
But the story - due to the chronology of it - will leave most people who heard just a little about it thinking "he resigned, bad EU", rather than getting the full picture.
But the story - due to the chronology of it - will leave most people who heard just a little about it thinking "he resigned, bad EU", rather than getting the full picture.
Could the ERC have been better prepared? Have briefed that this was about to happen?
Could the FT have checked what was up, rather than going so hard on Ferrari's side of the story?
Probably both were possible.
/ends
Could the FT have checked what was up, rather than going so hard on Ferrari's side of the story?
Probably both were possible.
/ends
