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Shamik Dasgupta

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Oof

that is one hell of a correction.

11:19 PM · May 19, 2022

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Up there in the same league as gems like this. Anyone spy a pattern?

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Isn't this the second time they did the same kind of correction w/r/t Covid deaths of children?

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Up there in the same league as gems like this. Anyone spy a pattern?

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Schwa - a former Utahn

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Sign of actual journalism: they issue corrections.

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Yes. And a sign of good journalism is that they don't repeatedly make obvious, order-of-magnitude scale mistakes in the first place.

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Wow. That is really one heck of an error. The reporter

bears much responsibility for exaggerating covid risks to children in 2020, leading to the disastrous school closures of 2020/21.

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NYT 'Whoops, my bad'

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WTF

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But both words do begin with D.