The Pulitzers' decision to review awards to the Times and WaPo amounts to what would call lunatic-appeasement:
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Those so-called "blocking statements," ruled Bertelsman, represented Phillips' opinion on the events of the day. They were "objectively unverifiable and thus unactionable opinions," he wrote.
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Central to the analysis of U.S. District Judge William O. Bertelsman were statements in the outlets' coverage that Sandmann somehow "blocked" Phillips as he sought to maneuver around the Memorial grounds.
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The New York Times issued this statement about the ruling:
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The suits stemmed from a January 2019 encounter when Sandmann, then a student at Covington Catholic high in Kentucky had an encounter on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with Nathan Phillips, an Omaha tribe elder.
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A federal judge in Kentucky today granted summary judgment motions from five media companies (NYT, ABC News, Gannett, CBS News and Rolling Stone) in defamation cases from Nick Sandmann.
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Bloomberg has retracted a story reporting that Fox News had failed to hand over discovery requests to Dominion Voting Systems as part of the latter's lawsuit against the network.
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Another was a New York Times story delving into the Justice Department's agony over the Hillary Clinton email investigation, which then-AG Loretta Lynch insisted be called merely a "matter."
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One of them was a Washington Post reconstruction of the failed efforts by the Obama White House to thwart Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election (with no help from Mitch McConnell).
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What's more, at least two of the Pulitzer-recognized stories furnished talking points for Trump and his allies, including Sean Hannity. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/
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To Donald Trump and his amen corner: Russian attempts to interference in the 2016 election were real. The stories describing them were accurate. In short, go suck an egg. Signed, the Pulitzer Board.
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Yes, Fox News: This is the post-Roe world you lobbied for!
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My book (out this fall) examines some troubling things in media — like WHY the NYTimes covered Hillary Clinton like it did. Like WHY newsroom leaders cower to bad-faith attacks from the radical right. … Preorder and get a free signed bookplate!
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This episode, by the way, helps to cement "Editor's Note" as the term of choice when editors wish to avoid "Correction" or "Retraction." 4/
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All told, I counted 12 sentences that cast doubt on the story -- they all stand, uncorrected, alongside an "editor's note" that guts them all. If ever the WSJ editorial board had some editing to do. 3/
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The editor's note leaves an astounding juxtaposition, as it cites the Dispatch as confirming a story that the Journal itself had characterized with this headline and subhead 2/:
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The Wall Street Journal has added an editor's note to its editorial regarding the 10-year-old Ohio rape victim who had to travel to Indiana for an abortion 1/: wsj.com/articles/an-ab
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Fitting that perhaps the biggest abortion story since the SCOTUS overturning of Roe v. Wade stems from regional/local newspapers, because that's where the reporting on this issue will be playing out for months and years. A brand-new test for a hollowed-out American media sector.
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I was the ONLY reporter in the courtroom this morning as the man accused of raping a 10-year-old girl, impregnating her, leading to an abortion in Indiana, was arraigned.
This confirms that the case exists.
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New York Times won't correct its errant guest essay on ectopic pregnancy:
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White House reporters object to being denied access to Biden events:
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I asked about the criticism, and received this response: "This is a guest essay which reflects the author's views. The author is clear about ectopic pregnancy: 'an ectopic pregnancy definitely won’t survive.'" 3/
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The focus has fallen on this paragraph:
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Many careful readers of -- -- have noted that the "guest essay" below contains some contradictory, or at least confusing, information about ectopic pregnancies. nytimes.com/2022/07/04/opi 1/
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Nearly 70 journalists have signed the letter below to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre protesting press-access restrictions in certain areas of the White House campus that were previously open to all reporters admitted onto the grounds.
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‘Calm down,’ libs! A look at misfiring punditry on Roe v. Wade.
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Ahead of her sentencing, scheduled for Thursday, Insurrectionist Simone Gold tells judge her elite credentials should keep her out of prison motherjones.com/politics/2022/ via
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One staffer told Buzbee that colleagues had learned that Malitz was offered a promotion to top features editor just before the Lorenz episode, only to have it rescinded days later. Buzbee didn't deny the timeline but said Malitz wasn't punished.
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More fallout at WaPo: Features staffers in a tense Thursday meeting pressed Executive Editor Sally Buzbee on the status of David Malitz, the deputy features editor who'd inserted an erroneous line in Taylor Lorenz's story:
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Our son recieved the @StanfordUniversity James W Lyons award for service and exceptional contributions to the university community and I could not be more PROUD.
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Other outlets, and now on-the-record police statements, have confirmed that AP report, rendering ridiculous Jones' 'ridiculous' assessment.
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Here's the AP story on parents' frustration with the police response to the gunman at Robb Elementary School -- the very story that Fox News's Lawrence Jones called 'ridiculous':
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TV news anchors always caution that preliminary reports about mass shootings can be wrong, in part because of incorrect information from authorities. But this is of another magnitude altogether:
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Below is from a writeup of an Axios interview with Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch, and it represents the worst of "critics say" journalism.
axios.com/2022/05/24/lac
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Per an informed source, Sherri Dalphonse has been named editor of Washingtonian magazine, replacing Michael Schaffer, who recently departed for Politico. Announcement was made by Washingtonian Media CEO Catherine Merrill at an all-hands meeting.
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Pentagon spox John Kirby yesterday congratulated the New York Times for its Pulitzer-winning investigation of overseas U.S. airstrikes:
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As Jen Psaki nears her last day, some numbers: As of yesterday, she'd done 222 briefings, which is more than all Trump press secretaries combined. They teamed up for 205 briefings, according to data from Martha Joynt Kumar.
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I am told that, in the spirit of transparency, ABC News President Kim Godwin informed staff on the network’s morning editorial call that she has tested positive for Covid after WHCD weekend.
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