There are more published stories receiving big edits or outright retractions than I ever recall seeing.

Might be worth placing these in a single thread to compare and contrast…see if there is any kind of trend.

I would like to lead with this seemingly mild rebuke on Joe Biden for continuously mentioning his son Beau when meeting grieving service families.

Beau Biden did serve as a JAG military lawyer in Iraq 2008 to 2009. He then went on to become AG of the state of Delaware. Passing away at the young age of 46 from brain cancer.

In the published article…

The Times updated the headline from “Biden, Still Grieving His Son, Finds That Not Everyone Wants to Hear About It,” to “In Invoking Beau, Biden Broaches a Loss That’s Guided His Presidency.”

The article highlights interactions between the president and the Gold Star families of those who perished in last week’s suicide bombing at the Kabul airport, under Biden’s chaotic termination of America’s involvement in Afghanistan.

Mark Schmitz, father of fallen Marine Lance Corporal Jason Schmitz, asked the president not to forget his son’s name at Dover Air Force Base amid the return of his body. Schmitz was taken aback as the president used the death of Jason to segue towards his own grief regarding Beau. “I respect anybody that lost somebody,” Schmitz began, “but it wasn’t an appropriate time.”

It appears as a relatively non controversial headline, yet the Times was bullied into turning it into mush.

Why?

We have the Rolling Stone retraction on hospital patient turn away’s Covid case counts gone wrong, tests that have been revised, etc etc.

There is an information ethics crisis as much as any medical emergency.

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Does anyone proof read these stories? Are they aware and hoping nobody else questions the report.

It is amateur night at the editor desk…a lot these days.

The original report claimed over 5,800 children had been hospitalized within a seven-day period in August. However, the 5,800 number actually refers to the number of children that have been hospitalized with COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. The Texas Tribune added a correction, noting the mistake in their numbers.

Fox News

Texas Tribune erroneously reports 5,800 children were hospitalized due to…

The Texas Tribune mistakenly inflated the number of children hospitalized by COVID-19 in the first week of August.

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This one might end up getting stickied for a while. :rofl:

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How about the paper showing that Ivermectin works on Covid being withdrawn because the research is probably fraudulent?

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Plagiarism is always a bad move.

It appeared that the authors had run entire paragraphs from press releases and websites about ivermectin and Covid-19 through a thesaurus to change key words. “Humorously, this led to them changing ‘severe acute respiratory syndrome’ to ‘extreme intense respiratory syndrome’ on one occasion,” Lawrence said.

The data also looked suspicious to Lawrence, with the raw data apparently contradicting the study protocol on several occasions.

“The authors claimed to have done the study only on 18-80 year olds, but at least three patients in the dataset were under 18,” Lawrence said.

“The authors claimed they conducted the study between the 8th of June and 20th of September 2020, however most of the patients who died were admitted into hospital and died before the 8th of June according to the raw data. The data was also terribly formatted, and includes one patient who left hospital on the non-existent date of 31/06/2020.”

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This one is rather remarkable in how many were impacted and how quiet the mistake was.

Check this out…

Rice began investigating and determined one of the testing companies had changed their protocols that determine test results without alerting Rice. The university asked the company to revert to their previous testing protocols, which they have done. The university retested 50 people who previously tested positive twice with two different tests and all but one came back negative. They released those students from isolation.

ABC13 Houston – 23 Aug 21

Rice University discovers dozens of COVID-19 false positives, days after…

The university used the initial results of 81 positive tests as the basis for its decision to shift classes online for the first two weeks of the semester.

What was I saying about credibility ?

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Is it now considered bad for news sources to post corrections and retractions?

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Of course not.

That is a bolts in the turbine question.

Post some published falsehoods. It is interesting because they are at least supposed to be proofread first.

60 deaths from Ida so far.

Which news source would you trust more. One that posts corrections or one that doesn’t?

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Did any of those news sources that pushed great Russian collusion ever retracted their stories?

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No need to retract anonymous sources.

This one is good on the retract vs update terminology…update softens the lie.

Furthermore, the NHS insisted that patients are not being turned any for emergency care in contrast to the recent reports.

“All patients who have visited our emergency room have received medical attention as appropriate. Our hospital has not had to turn away any patients seeking emergency care. We want to reassure our community that our staff is working hard to provide quality healthcare to all patients. We appreciate the opportunity to clarify this issue and as always, we value our community’s support.”

***The Rolling Stone later published an “update” to the top of the story which repeats NHS’ statement. ***

Critics slammed the magazine for publishing what appears to be a false story.

Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted “The only reason Rolling Stone is calling this an ‘UPDATE’ as opposed to what it so plainly is — a RETRACTION — is because liberal outlets know that their readers don’t care at all if they publish fake news as long as it’s done with the right political motives and goals.”

“Rolling Stone misspells ‘CORRECTION’ or ‘RETRACTION,'” Fox News contributor Joe Concha tweeted.

“Rolling Stone proving it did not learn its lesson from the UVA rape hoax disaster,” Washington Free Beacon reporter Chuck Ross wrote

https://usamediatimes.com/news/usa/rolling-stone-forced-to-issue-an-update-after-viral-hospital-ivermectin-story-turns-out-to-be-false/

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They have probably been updated based on the latest information… but that’s not really something I can answer since I haven’t been monitoring all those articles.

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Didn’t you have Mueller avatar once?

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This one was fun

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Honestly, you just had to look at the methods and you realized how bad that study was.

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Nope.

Man, these retractions are piling up as fast as the deflections today. :thinking:

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I hope it isn’t the clam chowder MRE. Those suck.

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