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NPR forced to issue apology to Trump Jr. Fox News Published on Dec 1, 2018
Turns out Trump Jr. did not lie during testimony alleged to contradict Cohen's testimony about the Trump building project.
NPR rushed a story without verification of the facts, and the MSM ran with it.
Trump Jr. was talking about a different issue in his testimony, and said nothing to contradict (or support) the issue raised by Cohen's testimony.
Fox news almost never retracts its stories yet whoops and hollers like it's some great victory when the 'other side' does its journalistic duty and corrects itself.
Let's see Fox line up every damn birther they ever had on and issue a retraction and an apology.
It's a massive Irony, when right-wing outlets who never admit they are wrong and always peddle in lies and half-truths act like it's a big moral win for them when the opposition plays by the rules.
NPR made the correction that same day as a proper and respected news outlet is supposed to do.
Remember that this is a big deal because it happens so rarely and we all know NPR is a credible news source. Nobody is surprised when Fox News doesn't retract its stories because everybody knows it's fake news and a propaganda mouthpiece for the White House.
Here was NPR's editor's note:
Editor's note: An earlier version of this report mischaracterized an answer Donald Trump Jr. gave to Senate investigators in 2017 about the prospective projects his family was negotiating with people in Moscow.
The story reported that Trump Jr.'s response — that negotiations on one project concluded by the end of 2014 — contrasted with the version of events as laid out in the guilty plea by Michael Cohen on Thursday. In fact, Trump Jr. and investigators were alluding to a different set of negotiations — not to a deal that Cohen was reportedly pursuing. Trump Jr. did acknowledge in his testimony that Cohen and another man were exploring a possible deal in Moscow in 2015 or 2016.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/38923/npr-tries-fails-prove-donald-trump-jr-lied-senate-ashe-schowThe article was not retracted, even though its entire premise was incorrect. The title was changed to “Cohen's Account Of Russia Talks Raises Questions About Trump Jr. 2017 Testimony,” even though there are no questions, except for why NPR didn’t do even a little bit of legwork to make sure it was accurately reporting something. The body of the article no longer includes the clipped exchange, and has to strain to make Trump Jr. look involved:
Trump Jr. told the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2017 that he was only "peripherally aware" of negotiations that Cohen has admitted to carrying on through June 2016. Cohen said in his guilty plea that he had briefed Trump's family members about his talks, although the court documents don't specify who.
Trump Jr. also told Senate investigators that he wasn't aware that Cohen had reached out to the press secretary for Vladimir Putin as part of his talks with Moscow about a putative new Trump Tower project there.
So, the NPR story went from “Trump Jr. Lied To Congress” to a media outlet trying to save face by reporting on an exchange that happened a year ago.
NPR guilty of fake news. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
What do you consider 'fake news'? An immediately-corrected mistake? You guys don't even know what that term means.
This was almost immediately corrected, why are you still posting about this? Let me guess.
What do you consider 'fake news'? An immediately-corrected mistake? You guys don't even know what that term means.
'Fake news'. Thats what your serial liar calls any source that's critical of his lies. There isn't a 'fake news' source anywhere that's less reliable than the President of the United States.
NPR forced to issue apology to Trump Jr. Fox News Published on Dec 1, 2018
Turns out Trump Jr. did not lie during testimony alleged to contradict Cohen's testimony about the Trump building project.
NPR rushed a story without verification of the facts, and the MSM ran with it.
Trump Jr. was talking about a different issue in his testimony, and said nothing to contradict (or support) the issue raised by Cohen's testimony.
NPR made the correction that same day as a proper and respected news outlet is supposed to do.
Remember that this is a big deal because it happens so rarely and we all know NPR is a credible news source. Nobody is surprised when Fox News doesn't retract its stories because everybody knows it's fake news and a propaganda mouthpiece for the White House.
Here was NPR's editor's note:
Editor's note: An earlier version of this report mischaracterized an answer Donald Trump Jr. gave to Senate investigators in 2017 about the prospective projects his family was negotiating with people in Moscow.
The story reported that Trump Jr.'s response — that negotiations on one project concluded by the end of 2014 — contrasted with the version of events as laid out in the guilty plea by Michael Cohen on Thursday. In fact, Trump Jr. and investigators were alluding to a different set of negotiations — not to a deal that Cohen was reportedly pursuing. Trump Jr. did acknowledge in his testimony that Cohen and another man were exploring a possible deal in Moscow in 2015 or 2016.
Trump Jr. did not address what Cohen has now admitted — that talks about such a deal continued at least into June 2016, longer than previously known and well into the presidential campaign.
NPR forced to issue apology to Trump Jr. Fox News Published on Dec 1, 2018
Turns out Trump Jr. did not lie during testimony alleged to contradict Cohen's testimony about the Trump building project.
NPR rushed a story without verification of the facts, and the MSM ran with it.
Trump Jr. was talking about a different issue in his testimony, and said nothing to contradict (or support) the issue raised by Cohen's testimony.
Good points.
I wonder what would happen if FOXNews or Trump Corp., had to retract and apologize for every lie or misinformation they put out? There wouldn't even be any time left for commercials! LOL!
NPR forced to issue apology to Trump Jr. Fox News Published on Dec 1, 2018
Turns out Trump Jr. did not lie during testimony alleged to contradict Cohen's testimony about the Trump building project.
NPR rushed a story without verification of the facts, and the MSM ran with it.
Trump Jr. was talking about a different issue in his testimony, and said nothing to contradict (or support) the issue raised by Cohen's testimony.
Here was the original NPR report:
https://web.archive.org/web/2018113...nflicts-with-cohen-s-account-of-russian-talks
Here is what they did after it was found incorrect:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/38923/npr-tries-fails-prove-donald-trump-jr-lied-senate-ashe-schow
So, there was no retraction, the story was simply modified. They changed the title from "“Trump Jr.'s 2017 Testimony Conflicts With Cohen's Account Of Russian Talks” to the new title; “Cohen's Account Of Russia Talks Raises Questions About Trump Jr. 2017 Testimony."
This is a problem with much of the news. They post something, make a mistake, and instead of honestly apologizing and retracting what do they do? They make a statement "correcting it" leaving a story in place acting like there still was a "breaking story" in the first place. Meanwhile people have already gone on a Twitter/Facebook/etc. (even in this Forum) storm of "GOTCHA!" and will continue to roll with it until someone bothers to point the correction out.
The fact that this IS a "trusted source" is what makes it worse that they don't broadcast a correction as loudly as they originally reported the wrong story AND retract the story where there was no story.
The damage was done, and no real effort to undo it.
Good, reliable, reputable news outlets verify facts before they rush to publish.They placed the correction at the beginning where everybody could see it, and they did it within hours of it publishing. Exactly as a reliable, reputable news outlet is supposed to do.
Good, reliable, reputable news outlets verify facts before they rush to publish.
They'd have to do a day of "news" then a day of retractions, a day of news....
Good points.
I wonder what would happen if FOXNews or Trump Corp., had to retract and apologize for every lie or misinformation they put out? There wouldn't even be any time left for commercials! LOL!
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