The story was just too good to be checked.
“The story was just too good to be checked.”
Exactly.
“The story was just too good to be checked.”
Brilliant!
Allegation front page
Retraction page 97 in the garden section
“The story was just too good to be checked.”
Well, they were talking to someone at the “Republic of Florida”, and he appeared to ‘claim’ the shooter. Where, exactly, would you go to cross-check that?
I don’t like defending the AP, but they weren’t just duped, they were lied to.
I guess cosmic justice evens this stuff out. The AP probably deserves this because they have so often run salacious stories with anonymous witnesses. They were more likely to get ‘played’ then with the discussion being off-the-record. Now they got zapped by somebody who was actually on the record. LOL!