Daily Beast retracts story on Scott Walker

politico.com ^ | 2/28/15 | Nick Gass

[cotton1706]

Another major media outlet has apologized after getting a story about Scott Walker wrong. Last week, it was the New York Times; now, it’s The Daily Beast.

The Daily Beast has retracted an article from one of its college columnists that claimed that the Wisconsin governor’s budget would cut sexual assault reporting from the state’s universities.

The post, published Friday, cited a report from Jezebel that wrongly interpreted a section of the state budget to mean that all assault reporting requirements were to get cut altogether.

In fact, the University of Wisconsin system requested the deletion of the requirements to get rid of redundancy, as it already provides similar information to the federal government, UW System spokesman Alex Hummel told The Associated Press on Friday.

The Daily Beast’s correction and retraction is posted in full below. The “USA Today” story it references, however, is actually an AP article posted on the site:

[cotton1706]

If a fact doesn't exist to take down a conservative threat, just make it up!!

[Westbrook]

So, how many times has a media outlet had to retract a defamatory hit piece on a demonRAT?

Zero?

Yeah, I thought so.

[JohnBrowdie]

obama’s lapdogs at the MSM are getting hysterical about walker; he must be doing something right.

[Sirius Lee]

If a fact doesn't exist to take down a conservative threat, just make it up!!

Yup. Let the lie run halfway around the world, and then publish the retraction on the bottom fold of page 17, next to the classifieds for used furniture.

What is not a lie, and needs no retraction, is that Jeb Bush is a maggot.

[Vigilanteman]

Easy to explain: They’ve never written one. Even Pravda criticized the Politburo once in awhile.

[Arm_Bears]

Trying to unring a bell.

How about a week-end, at minimum, in le hoosegow to let these lyin’ bastids reflect on the error of their ways?

[tcrlaf]

In Libworld, the truth simply doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is THE NARRATIVE, and pimping it.

To libs, even if the story gets withdrawn, it is considered a victory, because they got the meme “out there”, into the minds of the Low-infos.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

If a fact doesn't exist to take down a conservative threat, just make it up!!

Fake but accurate.

[traderrob6]

You have to print a defamatory hit piece in order to retract it.

[GOPJ]

It’s odd how many liberal members of the press make ‘mistakes’ when it comes to Republicans but NEVER make similar mistakes with Democrats.

I would list the ‘mistakes’ but they would go on forever. Truth is these are bad people with editors who don’t care about accrucy when a conservative is damaged.

Oberlin - KKK stunt done by liberal

Lesbian who carved her own skin with hate messages and attempted to blame a white conservative man

College liberal feminist who wrote ‘rape threats’ to herself and blamed white Republican men.

Left wing haters are so eager to jump that they don’t give a damn about the facts.

We know that because they NEVER make these kind off ‘mistakes’ with liberals.

We should not forgive them - not that the haters give a damn about our rights or feelings.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

http://www.freepatriotpost.com/daily-beast-forced-to-eat-crow-scott-walker-story-is-retracted/

“Here’s The Daily Beast’s retraction. Politico added that the “USA Today” story it references is actually an AP article:

A Daily Beast college columnist at the University of Wisconsin based this article off a Jezebel posting which was incorrectly reported. Jezebel updated their post on Saturday with the following after USA Today published a story debunking Jezebel’s account and clarifying Gov. Scott Walker’s position. “UPDATE: After Jezebel ran this item yesterday, a spokesman for the University of Wisconsin came forward—over two weeks after the budget was released—to clarify: the University requested that Gov. Walker delete the requirements because efforts were redundant with their compliance of the Cleary Act. Scott Walker’s camp assures that he’s committed to protecting victims.”

The Daily Beast is committed to covering the news fairly and accurately, and we should have checked this story more thoroughly. We deeply regret the error and apologize to Gov. Walker and our readers. This story should be considered retracted.

Jezebel’s actual “Editor’s Note” also includes these final two sentences:

We reported this piece without full context, and while this piece conveys factual information, omission of that context for that information presents an unfair and misleading picture. We regret the error and apologize.

But the reporter who wrote the Jezebel article had other things to say:

Ran an update on the Walker piece. Find another thing to be outraged about sweet, sweet Walkerites.

— Natasha VC (@natashavc) February 28, 2015

Also, I’m not gonna apologize for reporting what was in the budget. Because that was in the budget. Ask your gov. to apologize for bad optix

— Natasha VC (@natashavc) February 28, 2015

At a time when there is HEAVY scrutiny on state/fed/colleges, a proposal to delete standing regulations, requires more tact.

— Natasha VC (@natashavc) February 28, 2015

(H/T: Drudge Report)”

[reasonisfaith]

Times like this when they’ve been sitting around in some office scheming desperately about how to make up headlines, I wonder if it occurs to any of them how pitiful their ideas must be that they have to resort to such behavior.

I guess that was the whole point of Alinsky.

[Cheerio]

The lamestream DNC run media have made their hit and no amount of retractions mean anything. NEVER forget what the DNC media did to Palin - she never said she saw Russia from her front porch.

The DNC media knows that once their lie has been broadcast or printed, their work is done - no one sees the retraction. They are simply covering their backside from lawsuits - the political arrow has already hit it's mark.

The DNC media must be taken out - the constitution is NOT a suicide pact. Bray has a very good post this morning (like always)

Bray, Mar 1 2015