New York Times staff editor Juliet Lapidos apologized Wednesday to the Huffington Post's Sam Stein and Michael Calderone for a joke at HuffPo's expense during her employer's hours-long Internet blackout.
How is the Huffington Post handling the NYT outage? Do they have contingency plans?
— Juliet Lapidos (@julietlapidos) August 14, 2013
The New Republic's Marc Tracy bestowed upon this statement the mantle of "best tweet of the current crisis."
Stein subsequently tweaked Times staffers and Tracy for suggesting the publishing world, and specifically the Huffington Post, plunged into a deep state of crisis during the Times website outage.
Immediately, the pair apologized.
H/T Jim Treacher.
Best tweet of the current crisis RT @julietlapidos How is the Huffington Post handling the NYT outage? Do they have contingency plans?
— marc tracy (@marcatracy) August 14, 2013
i guess what angered me about the NYT's joking that we were lost w/ them down is the presumption that we'd HAVE to link to the NYT
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) August 14, 2013
Hey @marcatracy. i want to introduce myself. i do original reporting for the Huffington Post. I don't monitor NYT. com for material.
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) August 14, 2013
@samsteinhp I took the reference to be to the aggregating, not the reporting, but obviously you're right and I regret the crack
— marc tracy (@marcatracy) August 14, 2013
@samsteinhp @marcatracy Did not mean to wound. It was just a dumb joke.
— Juliet Lapidos (@julietlapidos) August 14, 2013
@mlcalderone Just meant that as a dumb joke. Sorry to offend.
— Juliet Lapidos (@julietlapidos) August 14, 2013