Journalism is in the Toilet

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(03-16-2021, 08:16 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I did not know about this second conversation and story.  But seems like the same thing as in my previous comments.  The Post was wrong for using the wrong exact quote, but it did not really change the meaning of what he was saying.

Post should be criticized, but there is nothing "huge and potentially earth shattering".  The only place you will find that type of hyperbole is in the right-wing echo chamber.

Exactly.  Corrections happen quite often.  It's an admission of something done in error or that new information changed the story.

But too often, as I said above, any mistake is used to say the entire story is "fake" or "overblown".  Journalism certainly isn't a perfect science but that they do correct themselves says more about their honesty than anything else.