It was another example of an important news outlet having to retract a major news story, as Bonchie reported yesterday, when The Washington Post had to retract its prior claim that both Rudy Giuliani and the news network One America News had been informed by the FBI that they had part of a Russian disinformation campaign. “This version has been corrected to remove assertions that OAN and Giuliani received the warnings,” the outlet says in part of its retraction.
This was clearly a coordinated hit being made by WaPost, evidenced by the timing; the initial report was made midweek to land in busy news cycles, while the correction is made in the weekend lull of low news consumption. Now, there have been follow-up retractions seen, one coming from the New York Times, and a second being made by NBC News. These are deeply revealing, because both outlets are not dismissing their culpability by saying their position was based on the WaPost report.
>It was another example of an important news outlet having to retract a major news story, as Bonchie reported yesterday, when The Washington Post had to retract its prior claim that both Rudy Giuliani and the news network One America News had been informed by the FBI that they had part of a Russian disinformation campaign. “This version has been corrected to remove assertions that OAN and Giuliani received the warnings,” the outlet says in part of its retraction.
>This was clearly a coordinated hit being made by WaPost, evidenced by the timing; the initial report was made midweek to land in busy news cycles, while the correction is made in the weekend lull of low news consumption. Now, there have been follow-up retractions seen, one coming from the New York Times, and a second being made by NBC News. These are deeply revealing, because both outlets are not dismissing their culpability by saying their position was based on the WaPost report.
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