As Twitchy told you yesterday, Pro Publica issued this major correction:
Correction: Trump’s pick to head the CIA did not oversee waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah https://t.co/3Pb9bbSvJz
— ProPublica (@propublica) March 15, 2018
There was even more:
“The story also said she mocked the prisoner’s suffering in a private conversation-Neither of these assertions is correct & we retract them” https://t.co/79UhBsAVxk
— SalenaZito (@SalenaZito) March 16, 2018
Of course, by the time the correction was issued the story had taken on a life of its own, but MSNBC’s Chris Hayes agreed that it’s a doozy of a mistake:
That's a very big error. https://t.co/Bhf0tlmoji
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 15, 2018
Instapundit Glenn Reynolds made this observation about such media mistakes:
https://twitter.com/instapundit/status/974621461364334593
Go figure!
— Rich Weinstein (@phillyrich1) March 16, 2018
I would replace "tend to" with "always and only"
— Judge Baylor (@BaylorRangers) March 16, 2018
One might almost call them purposeful… but that'd be silly ??? https://t.co/L3Ezbi0tZX
— Jon Collapsitarian (@jon_sobel) March 16, 2018
Totally! *Eye roll*
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