PolitiTweet Archive
Home Figures About
Donate
Profile Image

MAT HONAN

@mat ↗

  • Overview
  • Archive
  • Deleted
Deleted No
Hibernated No
Last Checked Nov. 29, 2021

Created

Sat Oct 23 04:38:36 +0000 2021

Likes

0

Retweets

1

Source

Twitter for iPhone

View Raw Data

JSON Data

View on Twitter

Likely Available
Profile Image

MAT HONAN @mat

RT @sheeraf: @fbajak @mat Except for that here, the rules were that documents journalists had before they even joined the consortium were n… — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 23, 2021 Retweet

Preceded By

Profile Image

MAT HONAN @mat

@fbajak Huh? It can be broken, sure. And that stinks. But it can also be (legitimately) scooped. Which is precisely why smart newsrooms put rails on embargo agreements. I don’t know precisely what happened in this case, but the notion that no one can scoop an embargo is wrong — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 23, 2021

Followed By

Profile Image

MAT HONAN @mat

@fbajak I too am familiar with the definitions of a scoop and embargo. Thanks for the 101 lecture though. You speak to my point here: “have that information because they have agreed to honor an embargo”. The “because” is everything. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 23, 2021

© 2025 Politiwatch. Tweets and other media belong to their indicated owners; all other materials are licensed CC-BY-SA. If you use PolitiTweet professionally, please feel free to let us know. Note that PolitiTweet stopped archiving new tweets on April 3, 2023, when Twitter disabled our API access.