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‘The Thrust of this Article Is No Longer Correct’: NBC News Backs Down from Fake News Hit(TR)
Breitbart ^ | 27 December 2018 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 12/27/2018 6:41:06 PM PST by KC_Lion

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NBC News has finally, a full day after being called out for printing the fake news, admitted that its article published on Christmas alleging President Donald Trump snubbed the troops during the holidays this year is incorrect.

NBC has altered its headline and story, changing their meaning to remove the original anti-Trump thrust, and added an extended editor’s note beyond the original editor’s note appended when it was first discovered to be an inaccurate piece. The new editor’s note admits in no uncertain terms that NBC News printed fake news, and that it was only leaving the article up in the interest of transparency despite the fact that “the thrust of this article is no longer correct” according to NBC News’s own editors.

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NBC News continues to, despite claims of being interested in transparency via its editor’s note, resist journalistic integrity and accountability on this front, and will not through a spokeswoman name the editor or editors involved in the publication of this fake news hit on Trump. NBC News also, through a spokeswoman, will not answer if there will be any accountability at all when it comes to the reporter on the byline of the article or the editors involved in publishing the fake news attacking the president.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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Full Title: ‘The Thrust of this Article Is No Longer Correct’: NBC News Backs Down from Fake News Hit on Trump, Troops, Christmas

LOOK at those smiles! :)

1 posted on 12/27/2018 6:41:06 PM PST by KC_Lion
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NBC. Nothing But Crud


2 posted on 12/27/2018 6:44:54 PM PST by ptsal
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The NBC news editor admits in no uncertain terms that NBC News printed fake news, and that NBC was only leaving
the NBC article up in the interest of transparency despite the fact that “the thrust of the NBC article is no
longer correct” according to NBC News’s own editors.

Nobody of sound mind believes NBC anyway......so this is a big yawn.

3 posted on 12/27/2018 6:47:40 PM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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They’re all positively beaming!


4 posted on 12/27/2018 6:48:59 PM PST by Heart of Georgia
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To: Liz

Unfortunately, too many people NOT of sound mind watch MSM and vote.


5 posted on 12/27/2018 6:50:10 PM PST by gnickgnack2 ( Another bad day for Trump, he only got seven major things accomplished .)
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Is that a person of color taking a non-derogatory selfie with President Trump?

Is that a woman standing nearby anticipating her own moment meeting the President of the United States?

I thank them all for their service.


6 posted on 12/27/2018 6:53:39 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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The ‘editors involved’ were just following orders from NBC anyway. Their jobs have all become GET TRUMP at NBC.


7 posted on 12/27/2018 6:53:58 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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I didn't study journalism in college, is "thrust" in journalism a 200-level or 300-level class?

Are news organizations taught how to "thrust" stories on the public?

-PJ

8 posted on 12/27/2018 6:56:33 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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I think it was CNN that said POTUS Trump brought the Troops a bunch of TRUMP 2020 Hats (which would be unlawful electioneering), which of course he didn’t.

Haven’t heard a peep about that, just something on Twitchy about all the Liberals going on about (the fake) controversy.


9 posted on 12/27/2018 6:57:22 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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Worthless. Absolutely worthless. NBC. MSNBC. CBS. ABC. CNN. The New York Times, The Washington Post. Just plain worthless. I don’t even give them three seconds of attention.


10 posted on 12/27/2018 6:58:14 PM PST by fhayek
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They were trying to say they did it on purpose without saying they did it on purpose. Newspeak.


11 posted on 12/27/2018 6:58:32 PM PST by Fungi
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Bingo!!!


12 posted on 12/27/2018 7:03:58 PM PST by Fungi
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Did anyone in the MSM bother to mention that the Obamas spent every Christmas of his presidency on vacation in Hawaii?


13 posted on 12/27/2018 7:04:08 PM PST by upsdriver (retired from ups since 2009)
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Bear with me if you heard this:

President Trump is having lunch with the Pope on his yacht when the Pope's mitre blows off his head and into the water. President Trump immediately says: "Let me get that for you, your Eminence!" whereupon he vaults over the side of the yacht, proceeds to walk on the water over to the mitre, picks it up, walks back to the yacht, and gracefully vaults fifteen feet back onto the yacht and hands the mitre to the Pope.

Headlines the next day: Trump Can't Swim!

It would be funnier if it weren't true.

14 posted on 12/27/2018 7:10:49 PM PST by econjack
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Too bad their article didn’t say that OBama went to the same military base in HAWAII every year while on his three week winter vacation.

As to the on-or-before-Christmas vs “Christmastime”, the proverbial twelve days of Christmas are the twelve days after Christmas, ending with The Epiphany, the feast of the Magi, on January 6. The days before Christmas are Advent, the days of preparing for the birth of Jesus.

15 posted on 12/27/2018 7:14:36 PM PST by Freee-dame (Best election ever! 2016)
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newsmeme
16 posted on 12/27/2018 7:19:17 PM PST by timestax
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17 posted on 12/27/2018 7:20:01 PM PST by timestax
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‘The Thrust of this Article Is No Longer Correct’

No longer correct? As though at one time it was?

18 posted on 12/27/2018 7:24:45 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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NBC is lost in the wilderness. They were paid to take care of the NWO. Unfortunately for them, they are buffoons.


19 posted on 12/27/2018 7:27:54 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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20 posted on 12/27/2018 7:29:24 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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