What about The Washington Post retracting parts of their Steele Dossier/Russian Collusion articles?

The Media Critic for the Post, Eric Wemple, criticised CNN and other news organizations for not correcting their stories and on Friday the Post itself changed stories it had earlier published (and received Plitzer Prize for).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/media-washington-post-steele-dossier/2021/11/12/f7c9b770-43d5-11ec-a88e-2aa4632af69b_story.html
"The Post’s decision to edit and repost the Millian stories is highly unusual in the news industry.
Mainstream publications often add corrections to published stories when credible new information emerges...But it’s rare for a publication to make wholesale changes after publication and to republish the edited story, especially more than four years afterward."
Questions raised by some: Why didn't the Mueller investigation reveal the lack of substantive sources?

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LordShadowfire · M

I know it's hard for folks who are used to Fox News and other networks that stick to their guns even when presented with information that proves they're lying to understand what's going on when a news network retracts a story that turns out to be false.

It's this new thing all the cool kids are doing called journalistic integrity.

dancingtongue · 80-89, M

@LordShadowfire Not just a new thing. Journalistic integrity and ethics used to be an essential part of the journalistic profession. Then the FCC relaxed requirements on broadcast news objectivity and fairness doctrines, 60 Minutes proved you could get high ratings and big advertising revenue by turning news into entertainment, and it has been pretty much entertainment for the entire lifetimes of too many people. But it used to exist, and nice to see some rediscovering it.

LamontCranston · M

@LordShadowfire There would have been even more integrity in investigating the story at the time. Remember how Ben Bradlee (in the Post's glory days)insisted that everything Deep Throat told them be confirmed by another source?
And great deflection there about Fox News. Incidentally, they are covering the border crisis/debacle better than anyone else.

dancingtongue · 80-89, M

@LamontCranston Two sources on controversial/uncertain information was a basic canon law for ALL journalists in the days of objective journalism.

LamontCranston · M

@dancingtongue Quite true.

dancingtongue · 80-89, M

@LamontCranston I figured The Shadow would know. 🤪

LamontCranston · M

@dancingtongue We go way back. "Who knows what eveil lurks in the hearts of men?"
"The weed of crime [faked dossiers] bears bitter fruit."

DavidT8899 · 22-25, M

@LordShadowfire Could you be kind enough to give a specific example of when Fox News did this?And anyone who uses CNN or any of the mainstream media as examples of journalistic integrity is SERIOUSLY delusional.

dancingtongue · 80-89, M

@LamontCranston How's Margot these days?

LordShadowfire · M

@DavidT8899 [quote]Could you be kind enough to give a specific example of when Fox News did this?[/quote]
Did what? Refused to issue a retraction when they are wrong? I don't know, try every single broadcast day.

LamontCranston · M

@LordShadowfire piss poor response: well, they are always wrong so we don't need to give examples.
Especially when you measure any sch against one of the most sustained and widspread misinformation campaigns in media history.