Journalism is in the Toilet

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(03-17-2021, 11:16 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: This statement pretty much reveals you don't know what a "quote" is.


No, my issue is with the Post putting out a story with inaccurate quotations.  Not only that, but it took another media outlet to actually investigate the story before they issued any kind of correction.  I've trained many officers, and one of the biggest things I emphasize with them is that if you quote someone in a report then you better damn well ensure the quote is accurate, otherwise you can destroy a whole investigation.  Now, such an investigation, potentially, has profound consequences for those involved (e.g. victim, suspect).  But a national news story about the presidential election? That, potentially, has profound consequences for the whole nation.  But it appears I'm in the minority on this one.

Your criticism is misguided and overly critical of the scope of what the Post did. Their source was the Dep Sec of State who was directly briefed by the person on the call and given those quotes. The quotes were in essence what he said but they were not direct quotes, making the Post's attribution of them as direct quotes to be incorrect. The Dep Sec of State repeated this to multiple outlets, the Post was just the first to break it. 

The Post and other outlets were wrong to have direct quotes rather than describing it as the tone or paraphrasing, but this was also a side note on the larger issue of the call to Sec of State Raffensperger, which was recorded and was the "smoking gun" if you will. You suggested that the investigator call caused reactions here and fueled the impeachment charges, but this call was not actually discussed here. The Raffensperger call was. 

Either your made an error or you embellished, either of which undercuts the point you're trying to make about integrity.