NBC News rewrote its article on Cristina King Miranda, but left out one important detail

Greg P. | 11:54 AM on September 20, 2018

Remember the NBC News story we told you about yesterday on Cristina King Miranda that was problematic because it was published after she had already deleted her social media posts on the alleged Kavanaugh incident at the time of publication?

Now that Miranda has given an interview to NPR where she says flat out that she doesn’t know if the alleged incident happened or not, we were wondering if NBC News would be updating or retracting its story:

Will you be updating or retracting your story now @KenDilanianNBC https://t.co/qXsfrhPnn7

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) September 20, 2018

Not updated. Not retracted. Rewritten:

It has been rewritten.

— John Sexton (@verumserum) September 20, 2018

This looks to be the added text (we think):

In an interview with NPR Thursday, King Miranda was more equivocal than she was in her Facebook post.

“That it happened or not, I have no idea,” she told NPR’s Nina Totenberg. “I can’t say that it did or didn’t.”

“In my [Facebook] post, I was empowered, and I was sure that it probably did. I had no idea that I would have to now go to the specifics and defend it before 50 cable channels and have my face spread all over [MSNBC] and Twitter.”

But King Miranda did not back off her assertion that she recalls hearing about an incident involving Kavanaugh at a party.

But it’s hard to know what’s been added because the one important detail that’s missing is the editor’s note describing what was changed: