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Major media sources retract, correct and/ or update news when more information is known.
The likes of an Alex Jones etc, only does so when ordered by a court to do so as a part of a settlement.
As someone (Mark Twain?) said, a little goes around the world multiple times before the truth gets out of bed and gets its boots on.
And as someone else posted earlier, the lie goes in the headlines, whereas the correction is buried (pun intended) on page 7A, perhaps next to the obits.
I've been thinking about this thread, and wanted to add something apropos of Jayson Blair. The Times and the Post each had their big scandal or two when they were duped. It came out, the papers apologized, and people were fired. The problem was with the ethics of the individual, not the paper.
But again, the reason Jayson Blair was able to get away so long was due to the policy put in place by the NYT, namely of unrestricted use by reporters of anonymous sources. The problem was not only with the individual, but with the paper too.
I just read Ed Klein's book Guilty as Sin about Hillary Clinton. BTW some interesting stuff in there about James Comey and the email investigation. The way he portrays it, Comey really would have loved to go after Hillary.
But his last chapter is 'A note on sources' where he talks about the use of anonymous sources. He claims to have sources deep inside the White House, the DOJ, the FBI, etc. and he quotes them at length. He says:
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Originally Posted by Ed Klein
Many...spoke on the condition of anonymity...all contemporary political books use information from anonymous sources to tell important stories that would otherwise go unreported....
"There has always been doubt about unnamed sources," said [Bob]Woodward, "and there should be. But you're not going to sit down with people who are in sensitive positions and say, 'I'd like you to talk on the record.' They'll say, 'Were you born yesterday?' It just is not going to happen."
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