[QUOTE=Onkel Neal;2553765]
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Originally Posted by vienna
...and, IIRC, wasn't The Post brought to task for some scurrilous bit of their own "fake news' and had to publicly apologize for the transgression?... 
At least they apologized |
Yeah, five days later and after they had precipitated a diplomatic flap that had the Iranian government calling in the Canadian ambassador to Iran to give an explanation for the false article; the original offending fake article was printed on Page 1 of The National Post; The Post published the retraction on page 2...
Almost all of the reputable news outlets and publications will willingly give clarifications, amendations, or, in the case of finding an article has been found to be false, a full retraction. If you ever look at news sites, very often a revised article is so noted, usually at the bottom of the article and the really reputable news outlets will give the details of what was amended or retracted. Even celeb gossip/news sites like TMZ will acknowledge prior erroneous reportage with detail. Some of the outlets, most notably Fox News, if they even acknowledge an error in reportage, just put some thing like "Edited 05/21/18" at the bottom of the revised article without explanation of what was edited...
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