Sam Amico
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The New York Times, Washington Post and NBC News have been wrong before and will be again. But never in unison, and never quite like this.
All three major news outlets had to issue retractions for their copycat coverage of Rudy Giuliani following a raid of his Manhattan apartment by the FBI.
“An earlier version of this article misstated whether Rudolph W. Giuliani received a formal warning from the F.B.I. about Russian disinformation. Mr. Giuliani did not receive such a so-called defensive briefing,” The Times noted its article.
The Washington Post echoed similar sentiments.
“An earlier version of this story, published Thursday, incorrectly reported that One America News was warned by the FBI that it was the target of a Russian influence operation,” the Post wrote. ““That version also said the FBI had provided a similar warning to Rudolph W. Giuliani, which he has since disputed. This version has been corrected to remove assertions that OAN and Giuliani received the warnings.”
NBC News then raised its hand and admitted it was also guilty as charged.
Giuliani himself later weighed in, calling out the Times, MSNBC and CNN … and wondering why only a correction was issued, and you know, not an apology. In fact, he couldn’t even get the standard, “We regret the error.”
He later called out the Post as well, calling their story as “defamatory.”
“The Washington Post and NYTNYT must reveal their sources who lied and targeted an American Citizen. #msnbc, #cnn forgot to mention the corrections today. #fakenews #badpeople,” he posted.
These higher profile people need to take these propaganda distributers to the justice system. The enemedia not having any consequences to their lies and slander is one of the biggest problems in this country.
I know there is always a desire to settle libel lawsuits because lawyers just want to get paid.
But, I would like to see one of them end up in the Supreme Court so libel protections can be reviewed again. Too many “mistakes” that get corrected 3 months later by large news organizations.
… and the retraction is NEVER on the front page. More like the bottom of page 38 near the anniversary announcements.
DemoKKKrat lies on page one… disingenuous retractions on page thirty, in 8 point font…
We all know they are just propaganda arms of the govt now run by the likes of Joseph Goebbels
Yep.
People think it’s Orwellian now just wait 5 years.
It’s going to become cartoonishly absurd
Sue them. If he gets put on trial anyone of the jury could have seem this
It should be law that a retraction/correction should have to be on the same page as the original story, same position on the page, and use the same font size. For tv, it should have to run at the same position in the news cast, and be addressed for the same length of time as the original story.