The Associated Press (AP) stylebook is the single most important book in a lot of journalists’ libraries, but the person behind its Twitter feed definitely could have done with a fresh glance at it today.
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One of the news agency’s latest tweets around the Malaysian Airlines MH17 crash was ambiguous enough to leave people concerned that a fresh tragedy had occurred while the bodies of the deceased were being flown to the Netherlands.
Check it out:
BREAKING: Dutch military plane carrying bodies from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash lands in Eindhoven.
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 23, 2014
You guys know you wrote a guide for this kind of stuff, right? pic.twitter.com/CzY9aznQyF
— R/GA (@RGA) July 23, 2014
AP was however quick to issue a correction:
CLARIFIES: Dutch military plane carrying Malaysia Airlines bodies lands in Eindhoven.
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 23, 2014
The plane, which crashed 50 km from the Ukraine–Russia border late last week, is believed to have been brought down by a Buk surface-to-air missile.
