Why did you "add immigrant to the top of the story"? What made you do that?
This was not shoddy journalism by Lee, it was an error that I edited into his story. He filed the story accurately and I mistakenly added immigrant to the top of the story. He is on vacation now so couldn’t read it over. It was 100% on me, not on Lee.https://twitter.com/marcslove/status/978488690690334721 …
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likely because that is what ICE usually deals with and he thought he was making the story easier to understand
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That's not the reasoning of a professional editor, especially since the story is not about an immigrant, but likely about a suspected felon, which makes ICE's information request sound quite legit. The story itself is bad journalism. Your poor judgement is just the cherry on top
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It is almost as if he made a mistake
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Fang wrote an article that from top to bottom, with or without your immigrant addition, that implies ICE routinely uses Facebook data In reality, it was a criminal investigation. Do you seriously not realize this is still misleading garbage?
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It's like writing a piece about how the government routinely records phone conversations of citizens & then belatedly adds an update that the person in question was the subject of a criminal investigation & had been wiretapped.
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The entire piece should be retracted.
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That is the most stand-up defense of a reporter’s work by an editor I’ve seen in a while. Thank you.
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Thank you for admitting you’re human & make mistakes. Issuing corrections always makes me trust the reporting more. If a news org never issues corrections, it proves they’re lying.
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The problem is the story generally runs on the front page while the retraction runs on the 6th page. They have to be more accurate.
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In the old days. Now the story is corrected online & an explanation given at its conclusion.
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Agreed.
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Yeah your finger slipped and I hit the immigrant key. Happens to me all the time.
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Holy shit, someone taking responsibility for a mistake?!??
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Ryan, I very much respect you for taking responsibility publicly like this. But there was (is) a lot more wrong with how that story was presented and with how it was corrected. Dara Lind got it right:https://twitter.com/DLind/status/978432990803103745 …
So in summary: The Intercept has a record of FB data being used for what appears to be a federal-local criminal investigation by one division of ICE, & is framing it in a way that strongly implies it is used routinely by ICE's other division for civil immigration enforcement.
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Massive respect for the transparency and clarity. The idea that journalists must be flawless to be valuable is toxic.
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Fact is, there are plenty of enemies of The Intercept waiting to pounce at the slightest misstep. That means the Intercept is doing journalist right.
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This is a terrible take borrowed from people that can’t abide critical thinking.
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