Friday, December 20, 2013

BuzzFeed Gets Justine Sacco Sacked?

Well, BuzzFeed might have enabled the sacking Justine Sacco.

See, "Internet Erupts After PR Woman for Media Firm Tweets a “Joke” About Getting AIDS in Africa."

Well, that's not going over too well for AceofSpadesHQ, "Buzzfeed Gets Results: Random Person No One Ever Heard Of May Be Fired Because of Joke Tweet! Yaaayyyy!!!"

Sacco's employer, IAC (communications, entertainment), has issued a statement:
“This is an outrageous, offensive comment that does not reflect the views and values of IAC. Unfortunately, the employee in question is unreachable on an international flight, but this is a very serious matter and we are taking appropriate action.”
And nothing stays quite for long on the Internet, at London's Daily Mail, "'Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!': Blonde female PR executive's racist tweet causes international outrage and may cost her her job"(via Dan Riehl).

Well, now everyone's waiting for her to land.

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