Cincinnati Bengals’ WR Chris Henry has sustained life-threatening injuries sustained in a car accident on Wednesday.
A Twitter account claiming to belong to Gerry Fraley of the Dallas Morning News said Henry had died. That account was a fake. Sports Media Watch, believing that the account was not fake, ran a story saying Henry had died.
This was an irresponsible and inexcusable error, for which I apologize.
Jon Lewis has been covering the sports media industry on a daily basis since 2006 as the founder and main writer of Sports Media Watch. You can contact him here or on the social media websites X (Twitter) or Bluesky.
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