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| MSNBC Retracts False Palin Story; Others Duped |
| 2008-11-13 |
| Network runs correction on air after reporting an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about Sarah Palin, information stemming from a hoax. ... |
| Posted by:ed |
| #5 Note that they are not retracting the story about Palin's ignorance, they are retracting the claim that the source is known. |
| Posted by: KBK 2008-11-13 12:47 |
| #4 Gaines told the Times that someone in the network's Fixed for accurate reporting. "Kudos to the inventor of this whole thing," Stein wrote. "My only consolation is that if I had as much time on my hands as he clearly does, I probably would have figured this out and saved myself a fair amount of embarrassment." Or actually cared enough do some factual reporting, eh? Or perhaps if your boss had TOLD you to check your fact before going live? |
| Posted by: DLR 2008-11-13 12:35 |
| #3 I'm surprized that they even bothered to retract. After all, no harm, no foul. She's a Republican, you know. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-11-13 11:28 |
| #2 there should be unpaid leaves for all the reporters and editors that let this sh*t go out on the air without the barest fact-checking |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-11-13 10:43 |
| #1 Now, if this had been the mainstream press, they wouldn't have made such an obvious error because their layers of fact-checkers and editors, and their journalistic professionalism, would not have allowed it to...oh!..What's that?...MSNBC is part of the mainstream press? Oh. never mind. |
| Posted by: Mike 2008-11-13 10:20 |