RT also picked up this story, with Helen Buyniski penning a somewhat acerbic commentary -
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/513405-harris-wapo-buried-joke/
RT (Russia Today) news is Russian based state funded news agency.
Do you really think they’re going to report fair and unbiased news events happening in the US?
To be very clear: This idiotic f-up notwithstanding, as a general rule the US MSM on its
worst day, is more credible -
- than NYP, and the better parts of Fox on most days,
- and the rest of Fox, OAN, RT and all the rest on their best days.
In fact, this is actually illustrated by this goofy example.
See what happened here: After the Washington Post quietly changed (“updated”) an 18-month-old article(!) -
- Reason put up a piece in short order pointing out the change.
- It percolated rapidly across social media.
- It was picked up by Fox and the NY Post, and then by Snopes and others.
Within just over 48 hours, the Post itself had to back down:
- The text at the top, “This story has been updated from an earlier published version”, now links to the original version.
- They also put up a piece by one of their opinion writers, quoting their spokeswoman about the incident.
- This piece tried to offer some context and explanations, both of which were pretty flimsy IMHO. But -
- Ultimately, both the spokeswoman quote as well as the piece itself acknowledged it was the wrong thing to do:
Kris Coratti, a spokeswoman for The Post, told this blog in an email: “[...] we should have kept both versions of the story on The Post’s site (the original and updated one), rather than redirecting to the updated version. We have now done that, and you will see the link to the original at the top of the updated version.”
None of that is to say this wasn’t a screw-up on the part of The Post. It surely was: Newspapers invest in campaign feature writing to create lasting accounts of how politicians respond to the rigors of seeking office. Leave good journalism alone.
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Finally, snark like this notwithstanding -
Does it surprise you to discover this?
Do you know any unbiased and fair USA news sources these days?
- the fact that this fairly minor kerfulle is even news, is proof enough of the importance of credibility in the media.
Many publications outside the MSM do this all the time, and nobody except journalism and politics junkies even notices. It’s just not newsworthy. It isn’t really news. The Washington Post does this? It makes the headlines.
That tells you all you need to know.
www.rt.com
