WaPo emite a la madre de todas las correcciones después de haber sido SLAPPED con la demanda de Covington

El Washington Post emitió a la madre todas las correcciones a su historia que difamó a los niños católicos de Covington por su altercado con Nathan Phillips.

Mira esto:

The Post has issued an Editor’s Note about updates to its initial coverage of the Jan. 18 incident at the Lincoln Memorial: https://t.co/rhzKZ1715K

We’ve also deleted this Jan. 19 tweet in light of later developments. For more, see the Editor’s Note. pic.twitter.com/O7qCSnBMPO

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 1, 2019

In a Friday night update in the midst of a massive lawsuit, Washington Post tries to quietly acknowledge, and downplay, its layers of false and defamatory reporting on the Covington High School boys who attended the March for Life. pic.twitter.com/acjTbK8FOV

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) March 1, 2019

Guau. Creo que parte de la culpa radica en la falta de información disponible desde el principio, pero su culpa fue seguir la narrativa popular liberal en el momento en lugar de verificar sus hechos y asegurarse de que eran precisos. Ahora parece que les va a costar mucho dinero:

I asked Nicholas Sandmann’s attorneys whether WaPo’s editors note changes the lawsuit. They said no, the note is “barely worth commenting on.”

— Robby Soave (@robbysoave)

De la razón:

Attorneys for Nicholas Sandmann—the Covington student accused of smirking at Phillips—were not satisfied with the editor’s note.

“What The Washington Post put out is barely worth comment,” Todd McMurtry, an attorney for Sandmann, told Reason. “WaPo committed gross journalistic malpractice and cannot undo its deeds with an editor’s note that purports to correct the record over a month after it led a frenzied mob in trashing a minor’s reputation. The Sandmanns would never accept half of a half-measure from an organization that still refuses to own up to its error.”

Bien por ellos. Si la única forma en que los principales medios de comunicación van a aprender a practicar realmente los estándares periodísticos que defienden es mediante una gran demanda, que así sea.