Posted on 08/23/2024 4:39:04 AM PDT by Freeleesy
"PBS NewsHour" anchor Judy Woodruff apologized Wednesday for reporting a story about former President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that both leaders have staunchly denied.
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"This was a mistake and I apologize for it," Woodruff wrote.
She posted, "I want to clarify my remarks on the PBS News special on Monday night about the ongoing cease fire talks in the Middle East. As I said, this was not based on my original reporting; I was referring to reports I had read, in Axios and Reuters, about former President Trump having spoken to the Israeli Prime Minister. In the live TV moment, I repeated the story because I hadn't seen later reporting that both sides denied it."
During a Monday night segment of the PBS News program, Woodruff stated, "The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the Prime Minister of Israel, urging him not to cut a deal right now, because it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign."
Apologies from the left are *always* after the damage has been done.
Election Interference? Arrest and trial?
They put a bold lie like this out there because they know most people will repeat it and few will read a retraction or apology.
This is where a person or an outfit like PBS should be sued for liable.
PBS is a taxpayer funded democrat outfit and should have their funding by taxpayers removed.
There was no original reporting from Axios and Reuters saying what she claimed on Monday evening. Worse for Woodruff, both articles she cited on Trump and Netanyahu said the former president encouraged the prime minister to take the deal (with the same source saying he wasn't sure). Later, Netanyahu would deny the phone call even took place.The Enemedia lie, and when their lies are pointed out, they lie some more.
At no point did any news outlet report that Trump told Netanyahu to not take a deal with Hamas, much less for political reasons as Woodruff claimed. She made the story up out of whole cloth, and then, instead of admitting it, doubled down on lying about it by blaming other outlets.
The only acceptable “apology” would be to resign, put on sack cloth and roam the country begging for forgiveness. Anything else is BS.
TDS got the better of her, so she didn’t do due dilgence expected of someone with her years of experience, so her cred went subterranean.she pointed to bad info from someone else when the fault lay with her ignoring the journalistic rule to doublecheck and corroborate. if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. and she exposed her moral “standards” by passing the buck. so i award her 2 “ICK’s,” one for journalistic negligence and another for not accepting responsibility.
It was not a mistake. She purposefully reported it because she was expected to and wanted to.
she tells the lie to millions and apologizes to nine in a coffee house.
Intentionally. Not a mistake. They’re still lying.
“I repeated the story because I hadn’t seen later reporting that both sides denied it.”
Nope. She ‘repeated’ the story ‘because’ she wanted to believe it, and wanted to slander Trump. THAT’S why she reported it as fact. If someone denying a factual story about them kept the press from reporting it, we’d have no ‘news’. Total BS, and a half-hearted/weasely apology. She wanted to report it, as it cast Trump in a bad light, and so did.
I don’t know what power the FCC really has, but I would like major media outlets to get stomped on really hard if they show bias or tell lies.
Freedom of Speech is nice and all, but I see what they’ve done with the Second Amendment (”shall not be infringed”) and I now want the government to revisit the concept of Freedom of Speech in a very similar way.
“Oh, no! But what if the Democrats get into power and then stomp on Conservative speech?????”
Yeah. That’s where we are now. I’m talking about that road going both ways. The Liberal press deserves a beatdown.
They really shouldn’t be able to report stories without attribution. If a source wishes to remain anonymous the reporter must find two sources who are okay with being named. Makes their job harder but protects legitimacy.
Judy has been Bidenized.
When the Dem candidates lie and the media lie, it’s not good. Media is corrupt, they allow Kamala to repeat lies about Trump and never question disproven lies they make.
Yeah, and how many will see this ‘mistake’ quote?
Exactly.
She reported a rumor and embellished on it.
She would never do that to a Leftist Democrat.
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