Oscars snafu? Let’s hope they don’t blame the Latina
Victor Landa, NewsTaco ( 1 minute read) 
Not that it was her fault (I have to start with a disclaimer) but the very public snafu at the end of the Oscars telecast this past weekend happened somewhere between Martha Ruiz’s hands and Faye Dunaway’s mouth.
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Before Sunday’s telecast I received several story pitches about Ruiz and how she was one of two people who knew the Academy Awards balloting results before the show. Fortune magazine said “PwC [Price Waterhouse Coopers] has been counting ballots for the Oscars for the past 83 years, and Ruiz has been involved with that process for the past three. She is the first Latina and second woman ever to serve as a PwC Oscars tabulator, a job that she describes as ‘a unique, surreal experience.’
Yeah, it was that, even more so. All the secrecy and technological bean-counting in the world can’t avoid a simple mishandling of an envelope.
Let’s hope they don’t blame the Latina.
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