Posted on 01/25/2019 8:23:38 PM PST by ameribbean expat
Following last Saturday’s (Jan 19) Telegraph magazine cover story “The mystery of Melania”, we have been asked to make clear that the article contained a number of false statements which we accept should not have been published. Mrs Trump’s father was not a fearsome presence and did not control the family. Mrs Trump did not leave her Design and Architecture course at University relating to the completion of an exam, as alleged in the article, but rather because she wanted to pursue a successful career as a professional model. Mrs Trump was not struggling in her modelling career before she met Mr Trump, and she did not advance in her career due to the assistance of Mr Trump.
We accept that Mrs Trump was a successful professional model in her own right before she met her husband and obtained her own modelling work without his assistance. Mrs Trump met Mr Trump in 1998, not in 1996 as stated in the article. The article also wrongly claimed that Mrs Trump’s mother, father and sister relocated to New York in 2005 to live in buildings owned by Mr Trump. They did not. The claim that Mrs Trump cried on election night is also false.
We apologise unreservedly to The First Lady and her family for any embarrassment caused by our publication of these allegations. As a mark of our regret we have agreed to pay Mrs Trump substantial damages as well as her legal costs.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I would love to have been a fly on the wall.
The financial threat must have been substantial.
And that is exactly how it works.
Sewer skum.
The real question is ‘how could they (editors) have allowed so many WRONG statements to be made in a single article?’
No doubt it was designed to be a ‘hit piece’. Why else would so many ERRORS have made it into print?
If The Telegraph managing editor, meaning The Telegraph, had any integrity, everyone who allowed this article to make it to publication would have already been FIRED and the managing editor would have submitted his/her resignation.
This wasn’t journalism.
This wasn’t excusable errors.
This was an intention hit piece on the level of politics of personal destruction and scorched earth. A printed apology is not sufficient!
I dont really think they care except for the loss of their money.
They had a narative they desired to run above all else for maximum effect and damage they belieed it would cause, and they did, and it caused damage and had the desired effect of negatively casting Trump and his wife.
They gt what they wanted, they have to pay a little and say a fake apology. Soros or someone like him will probably cover the costs. All part of doing business and spinning stuff the way you want. Its just operating costs to the socialist media.
In what I am confident is a *completely* unrelated event, a whole bunch of young, catty, female writers just got laid off at Buzzfeed or several similar places...
It probably helps when your husband has launch authority on the US nuclear arsenal. (Remember, these sorts of people *believed* Trump was gonna start a nuclear war with North Korea, hint hint.)
I was thinking the same thing as I read all the info they admitted they f'd up. You don't make that many mistakes without it being done deliberately. Makes you wonder how many other articles they've lied in. This definitely wasn't the first time. They've probably just not been taken to task over it.
It seems to me retractions such as this need to have just as large a headline as the original article, be posted / promoted just as prominently, and occupy as much "space" (as many pixels?) as the original article.
Even without readers having any other knowledge or background... WHO could be dumb enough an author to think that one (struggling modelling career) would fly?
Dear UK Telegraph: Sod off.
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I hope the Covington Catholic kids get the same result.
IS this for Real???? They BARELY got her name right!!!
This cheered me up more than anything I have read in a year. I can’t stop laughing.
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
CC
Why didn’t the check it out before they published it. Interesting that it was the UK Telegraph and not the communist UK Guardian.
Somebody needs to be fired, then shot. Might convince legitimate writers to get their facts straight before they write.
I’ve been a writer for 50 years and never had problems. Threats, yes, but action, no. I did my homework before publishing. Old School Journalism Course 101 - Get it right the first time.
Honest journalists would never have made that many “mistakes” in an article about a First Lady. These people are filled with irrational hate. Thank God that President Trump is a billionaire and has the resources to protect his wife from these jackals.
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