Jamison Foser

@jamisonfoser they changed it to clarify that he says he never met her, right?

@nycsouthpaw Not quite. Initially they said he says he never met her … AND that they had determined they never met.

@jamisonfoser @nycsouthpaw Yes, that's exactly what happened. The WaPo never meant to say it determined that as fact.

@AmyEGardner Thanks. As you might imagine, I think that’s a pretty huge error to have made.

@jamisonfoser Among the remarkable, rock-solid revelations in this story, I might stop short of "huge." We make mistakes and we fix them.

@AmyEGardner You don’t think the WP asserting that it had determined Jackie lied when it had not in fact determined that is a big deal?

@jamisonfoser Wld be bigger if we'd meant to assert - was an editing error. We corrected as soon as we discovered it, and admitted it next.

@jamisonfoser @marynmck No it's still there ... Read sentence above. @TReesShapiro What's the reason there?

@leonardkl @marynmck @TReesShapiro No it isn’t. The Post claimed it had determined they never met. It deleted that claim.

@jamisonfoser @marynmck @TReesShapiro True it is deleted from the bottom but added to the sentence before it; unless I'm missing something.

@leonardkl @marynmck @TReesShapiro … claiming that you’ve determined they never met.

@jamisonfoser @marynmck Gotcha. OK @washingtonpost, @TReesShapiro Should issue editor's note/clarification.

@jamisonfoser Hard to see how the Post could “confirm” that the two of them never met.

@JonHenke Right. Stunning that made it through editing.

@jamisonfoser Eh, they fixed it. Only problem, it seems, is fixing not the fly without noting changes.

@JonHenke That’s a pretty big problem to publish in the first place. It’s a direct statement by the Post that she lied.

@jamisonfoser Yeah, it’s flawed. I’d just chalk it up to the kind of errors you make when rushing a story, not an intentional claim.

@JonHenke Yeah, I’m not saying they intentionally lied. I am, however, saying it’s a HUGE fuck up.

@jamisonfoser Journalism should adopt a wikipedia revision transparency approach to publishing/editing.