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2008-11-13 Home Front: Politix

MSNBC Retracts False Palin Story; Others Duped

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Posted by ed 2008-11-13 09:53|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#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|| 2008-11-13 10:20|| Front Page Top

#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">Frank G 2008-11-13 10:43|| 2008-11-13 10:43|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-11-13 11:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Gaines told the Times that someone in the network's ~~newsroom~~ restroom had presumed the information solid because it was passed along in an e-mail from a colleague.

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|| 2008-11-13 12:35|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-11-13 12:47|| Front Page Top

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