7/ Regardless, the standard of "error-free" gives every misstep more weight and greater chance for Trump apologists to smack down CNN
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8/ CNN deserves critique & criticism. All press does. Even when its critics (esp those in administration) don't play by same rules.
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9/ CNN fumbled in story on gif creator by saying it “reserves the right to publish his identity” should Redditor return to bigoted postings
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10. People called that blackmail. I'm not convinced. I think CNN wanted to put down marker they’d name him if he became newsworthy again
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11. Reddit guy wasn't source or 15 yr old (as some claimed) but subject of story: a generator of racist memes who also inspired POTUS tweet
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12/ The mandate to play “error free ball” ties up CNN in knots & gives ballast to those who would attack it for purely political reasons
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so
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As I said, that's the aspiration, at NPR as at CNN, NYT whatever. But zero-tolerance ultimately leads to extreme caution or blood-letting.
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By that standard, Woodward & Bernstein would have been fired for story on Hugh Sloan implicating Halderman to grand jury. Sloan wasn't asked
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Seems like the error was compounded by evading normal approval process, which *would* be a fireable offense. But
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Didn't all of last week's stories say that?
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Brian, why are we all still scratching our heads? We still don’t know what if anything was wrong with the story.
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