WaPO Rewrites General Fired at Midnight Story Without Acknowledgement!
This WaPo story ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/commanding-general-of-dc-national-guard-to-be-removed-from-post/2017/01/13/725a0438-d99e-11e6-b8b2-cb5164beba6b_story.html ) has been completely rewritten since it was originally posted this morning, with no notice of the rewrite!
The original FR post uses the WaybackMachine link from 1:55pm and the above is the link for the current 5:23pm version, which CURRENTLY does not acknowledge the rewrite.
(Unfortunately, the WaybackMachine has not captured anything after 1:55pm, so WaPo could subsequently add a rewrite disclaimer. However, I captured the 5:23pm version and put it in a .mht file which can be downloaded at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_hrA7ihzIPlX3JFTC1HMUVtRW8/view?usp=sharing
The original story mentioned ONLY the memo it supposedly “obtained” and said NOTHING at all about standard letters of resignation, nor did it quote anonymous “military” officials, AND it said it had received no comment at all from the Trump people (or the military for that matter). The original article implied there may be some kind of craziness behind the change based solely on this secret memo they had, strongly making people think that Trump fired this guy in midstream.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands of other outlets then wrote articles based on the original version of the WaPo article, some even headlining “Trump fires general in midstream”. None of these hastily written derivative articles have noted the secret WaPo retractions.
However, within hours of the original article, WaPo completely rewrote the article and completely reoriented the focus and meaning of the article but did NOT acknowledge the rewrite!
This is what WaPo did with their original "Russians hacked the power grid" article: rushing out sensational BS garbage without doing any confirmation research, getting caught, and then having to make a "note", but the damage was already done because thousands of other media outlets replicated the original story.
Except in this case, WaPo simply rewrote the original story without even noting the rewrite!
We gotta get this to Tucker and Hannity!
this kind of “journalism” makes fake news look good!
having a hard time getting direct waybackmachine links to work. here’s the 1:55pm link. if this doesn’t work, i’ll have to try something else.
Bkmrk.
btw, i’ve asked the mods to fix the original post link AND to promote this to Breaking News.
later
He will be leaving his post, but he’s not being removed per se.
He serves at the pleasure of Obama by appointment, and Trump is not going to renew his appointment.
His post ends at the end of the Obama administration, so this isn’t new to the guy.
He knew there was a chance he wouldn’t be re-upped here.
Trump is not re-upping his appointment.
He doesn’t have to have a cause.
This is a big fat nothing burger.
Next the Washington Post will be reporting things like this.
Breaking...
Trump aid stops at fast food drive through, and doesn’t officially order the food to go. He then pays and drives off. Film at eleven...
Breaking...
Trump recently wore regular shoes out in the rain. This reckless behavior exposed him to danger, and the Secret Service was left hanging unable to do anything about it.
More on this later...
Two military officials with knowledge of the situation said the Trump team decided to accept the resignation. A person close to the transition said transition officials wanted to keep Schwartz in the job for continuity, but the Army pushed to replace him.
We’re already at the point where even if there was some genuine Trump scandal reported by these cretins, no one would believe it.
One hint I’ve learned from reddit is to use archive.is when you want to highlight some article online for commenting. It’s a webpage capture system, free, and easy to use. It does 2 things:
1. Archives how the article existed at that specific date/time, and
2. Deny’s the website the ‘clicks’.
I just have a separate window open to archive.is, copy/paste the media’s webpage URL that I want to capture, let it do it’s thing, and it will return a new URL to the captured webpage to post on facebook, reddit, FR, etc.
From their website:
Archive.is is a time capsule for web pages!
It takes a ‘snapshot’ of a webpage that will always be online even if the original page disappears.
It saves a text and a graphical copy of the page for better accuracy
and provides a short and reliable link to an unalterable record of any web page
including those from Web 2.0 sites:
http://archive.is/2013.05.01/http://nickqizhu.github.io/dc.js/
http://archive.is/2014.06.26/https://www.google.com/maps/…;
This can be useful if you want to take a ‘snapshot’ a page which could change soon: price list, job offer, real estate listing, drunk blog post, ...
Saved pages will have no active elements and no scripts, so they keep you safe as they cannot have any popups or malware!
The real scandal is 5,000 UNARMED national guard to be targets in a large gun free zone.
This would fall under the category of “FLUID” news - always changing to deflect critique and spin the story at the whim of the editors.
The Amazon touch.
Trump couldn’t fire him
Sounds like a sissy little hissy fit of Obama’s to try to mess up the security at the inauguration.
Thanks here’s some direct screen capture links, as it was a bit tricky (to say the least) to access the Google Docs link you posted, even on a PC. At least for me it was.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vlvpu1te1wa9mgx/2017-01-14%20%281%29.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/366a1f0rxjzn5ul/2017-01-14%20%282%29.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w38v0gp907b0747/2017-01-14%20%283%29.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/g43h4d7rmwjrkva/2017-01-14%20%284%29.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rgg5x53xqu8thoi/2017-01-14%20%285%29.png?dl=0
These are screen captures of the WP story as it now stands, and doesn’t show any evidence of rewriting. Screen captures made since (as you said) the WP may add such a note later, but the Wayback Machine won’t capture the story as it stands now without the note of rewrite.
Obviously, Team Trump, aware of anarchist’s vows and plans to shut down D.C. wants their man in that key job!
Thanks for posting this.
A few of us saw through the bs of the original Compost fake news and posted that Trump can and will be replacing Obozo’s political appointments in DC and across the land.
Too many to a few freepers tend to over react when the mediot put out fake news as with this example and urine gate.
The incoming general was promoted by Obama a year ago. He is a Chicago native
http://www.nationalguard.mil/portals/31/Features/ngbgomo/bio/2/2394.html
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