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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Disney plans to raise ESPN+'s monthly subscription from $6.99 to $9.99 and its annual price from $69.99 to $99.99, 43% increases, starting on August 23, 2022 — The Disney-backed streaming-video sports service intends to raise its monthly subscription fee by $3 a month …
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CNBC, CNET, Sports Illustrated, Bloomberg, Awful Announcing, The Streamable, World Soccer Talk, The Wrap, @gswaim, New York Post, The Desk, The Verge, @bmarcello, @andy_staples, @sportstvratings, Hollywood Reporter, @xpangler, @chrisvannini, @andyglockner and @rm_preston, more at Techmeme »
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Alex Sherman / CNBC: Disney highlights value of its streaming bundle by increasing price of ESPN+ 43% to $9.99 per month
Mary-Elisabeth Combs / CNET: ESPN Plus Subscription Will Rise to $10 a Month
Madison Williams / Sports Illustrated: ESPN+ Will See Significant Price Hike in August, per Report
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: ESPN+ Streaming Price to Jump 43% to $9.99 a Month
Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: ESPN+ to Raise Price by 43% Next Month; Disney Bundle Price Unaffected... for Now
Brandon Katz / The Wrap: ESPN+ Monthly Subscription Price Increasing 43%
@gswaim: Somebody has to pay for the failure that is the Longhorn Network, and that somebody is unfortunately the fans. https://twitter.com/...
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post: Disney to hike price of ESPN's streaming service by 43%
Matthew Keys / The Desk: ESPN Plus to raise monthly price by 40 percent
Brandon Marcello / @bmarcello: And FOLKS, just in time for college football season https://twitter.com/...
Andy Staples / @andy_staples: FIFY: Disney is raising the monthly subscription fee for ESPN+ by $3, right before football season begins and every fan of an SEC school will have to subscribe to watch their team's worst game. https://twitter.com/...
@sportstvratings: “More profits' from streaming seems a bit misleading. According to the story the Disney bundle (DIS+, ESPN+, Hulu) price isn't changing at this time. Is it a bid to lose less or to push everyone to the Disney bundle? https://twitter.com/...
J. Clara Chan / Hollywood Reporter: ESPN+ to Hike Subscription Price Starting Next Month
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: This is a 43% price hike. Disney raised ESPN+ prices in 2021 and 2020 as well https://twitter.com/...
Chris Vannini / @chrisvannini: Notable news ahead of college football season. Some SEC and Big 12 games, along with a lot of G5, are on ESPN+. https://twitter.com/...
Andy Glockner / @andyglockner: This is jarring, but ESPN+ was the rare service that was underpriced (at least for what I consume), so it's understandable that they'd market-adjust. https://twitter.com/...
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Apple launches Apple Music Sessions, with performances by Carrie Underwood and Tenille Townes recorded in Apple's Nashville studio and released in spatial audio — Apple is introducing a new perk for Apple Music subscribers, Apple Music Sessions, which gives listeners access to exclusive releases …
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Mary-Elisabeth Combs / CNET: Apple Music Unveils ‘Sessions,’ Exclusive Performances By Big Names
CNBC: Apple Music subscribers are getting access to exclusive content from artists like Carrie Underwood
Chris Welch / The Verge: Apple Music subscribers will get exclusive live performances in spatial audio
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple Music Sessions Debut With Exclusive Live Audio and Video Releases
William Gallagher / AppleInsider: Apple launches Apple Music Sessions with highlight on Spatial Audio
Tyler Dawson / National Post:
Postmedia, which publishes the National Post and other Canadian news sites, joins Torstar and the Globe and Mail in signing a deal with Google News Showcase — Google says more than 1,500 publishers from around the world are participating in the program — Postmedia has signed a deal …
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Protocol names MIT Technology Review Executive Editor Michael Reilly as editorial director; Protocol Editor-In-Chief Tim Grieve is leaving after four years — Michael Reilly, the executive editor of MIT Technology Review, has been hired as editorial director of tech news site Protocol.
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Benjamin Pimentel / @benpimentel: @timgrieve @protocol You helped launch and blaze the trail for what is undoubtedly the best news organization I've ever joined! It's been an honor working you Tim! We will all miss you!
Tim Grieve / @timgrieve: @Reillymj ... So psyched to watch what you and @jme_c and the whole @protocol team do next!
Jamie Condliffe / @jme_c: First, I am so, so excited that @Reillymj is joining as Editorial Director to lead our newsroom. Psyched that he's going to be bringing years of experience from @techreview — with all its deep, nuanced reporting — to @protocol. https://twitter.com/...
Jamie Condliffe / @jme_c: Second, it's a bitter-sweet day as we're also saying goodbye to @timgrieve, our Editor-in-Chief. Obviously thrilled for him and his new adventure, but sad to lose such an inspirational, thoughtful, caring boss. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Reilly / @reillymj: Personal news: after nearly 7 wonderful years @techreview I am leaving to join @protocol as their Editorial Director. I've been blown away by what the team has accomplished so far, and am beyond excited to help take Protocol to the next level!
Tim Grieve / @timgrieve: So, some personal news: After four years at work on @protocol, I'm leaving this month for some new life adventures. I leave with so much pride in what we've built together — and with so much faith in the smart, passionate, caring journalists who will carry it into the future.
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: Protocol editor in chief Grieve is departing
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Twitter is testing custom timelines built by developers that list content around specific themes, starting with one about The Bachelorette in the US and Canada — Twitter is testing a new feature that will show users custom timelines built by developers that will merge Tweets …
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@whitneyrogers: The team @TwitterDev has been sprinting on some new goodies for developers, check it out! Been dreaming up the concept of custom timelines made by developers for a while now. Excited to see what we learn from users in these experiments! https://techcrunch.com/...
Jay Sullivan / @jaysullivan: We are experimenting with custom timelines. This open approach has huge potential to enable developer innovation and new experiences. Hats off to @TwitterDev https://www.theverge.com/...
David Cohen / Adweek: Twitter Begins Testing Custom Timelines
Jordan Valinsky / CNN:
Hasbro is paying The New York Times a licensing fee to release Wordle: The Party Game, a Wordle board game, on October 1 for a suggested price of $19.99 — New York (CNN Business)Wordle is jumping from the P-H-O-N-E to the B-O-A-R-D. — Hasbro is partnering with the New York Times …
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CNET, Macworld, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Company, PARADE Magazine, Axios, @michaelroston, @fromedome, TechCrunch, WGN-TV, The Verge, Polygon, Nerdist and New York Post
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Gael Fashingbauer Cooper / CNET: How to Win the New York Times Spelling Bee Every Time
Jordan Hoffman / Vanity Fair: Wordle Prepares for IRL Release
The New York Times Company: Hasbro and New York Times Games Are Bringing Wordle to Life in a New Board Game
Marisa Losciale / PARADE Magazine: Wordle Is Getting Its Own Board Game—Place Your Preorder Now!
Noah Garfinkel / Axios: Wordle to be reimagined as a board game
Michael Roston / @michaelroston: This seems like an improvement over “Hungry, Hungry Editors” https://twitter.com/...
Toussaint Egan / Polygon: Wordle is getting an official party game
Eric Diaz / Nerdist: A Wordle Board Game Is Coming This Fall
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Beyoncé joins TikTok, gaining 3.3M+ followers in her first day on the platform, and offers her entire catalog for users to choose from as music for their videos — Pop superstar Beyoncé has joined the short-form video app (link) — and her entire catalog is now available …
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Tone Deaf, Music Ally, Billboard, WHDH-TV, NBC News, The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, WGN-TV, Tubefilter, CNET, The A.V. Club, UPROXX, Rolling Stone, The Verge and HipHopDX News
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Danica Baker / Tone Deaf: Beyonce posts first ever video on TikTok
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: Beyoncé joined TikTok yesterday and already has 3.5m followers
Kyle Denis / Billboard: Beyoncé Has Finally Posted Her First TikTok — and It Includes a Cardi B Appearance
Brianna Silva / WHDH-TV: My soul is ready: Beyoncé has joined TikTok
Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News: Beyoncé's on TikTok now, and so is her entire musical catalog
Sharon Knolle / The Wrap: Beyoncé Finally Posts to TikTok, Makes Entire Catalog Available to TikTokers (Video)
Carlos De Loera / Los Angeles Times: Beyoncé finally joins TikTok, bringing all of her music along for the ride
Sam Gutelle / Tubefilter: Beyoncé has arrived on TikTok — Lately, creators across the internet have been singing the line …
Nina Raemont / CNET: Beyoncé and Her Music Arrive on TikTok
Hattie Lindert / The A.V. Club: Queen Bey blesses subjects by joining TikTok (and bringing her musical catalog with her)
Derrick Rossignol / UPROXX: Beyoncé Joins TikTok And Starts By Showing Love To Her Favorite ‘Break My Soul’ Videos
Tomás Mier / Rolling Stone: Beyoncé Joins TikTok and Shares First Video Thanking Fans for Releasing the ‘Wiggle’
Mia Sato / The Verge: Beyoncé — and her music — is now on TikTok — She announced her arrival with a fan compilation
Andy Bustard / HipHopDX News: Beyoncé Makes TikTok Debut With Cardi B's Help
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
The UK's Channel 4, which is fighting the government's privatization plan, reports £1.2B in 2021 revenue, up 25% YoY, and a record profit of £101M, up 36% YoY — Alex Mahon also touts the broadcaster's mission to showcase diversity and “challenge perceptions” …
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John McCarthy / The Drum: Channel 4 breaks several revenue and audience records - weakening privatization plans
@thr: U.K.'s Channel 4 Is in “Most Robust” Financial Health Ever, CEO Says Amid Government's Privatization Push https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Naman Ramachandran / Variety: Channel 4 Achieves Record $1.4 Billion Revenues, Tackles Privatization
Washington Post:
Saudi officials excluded two WaPo reporters from a briefing during Biden's visit; after Post reporters raised the issue with the White House, they were invited — Biden's greeting to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was criticized by human rights advocates as too friendly.
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@tylerpager, Insider, The Hill, Fox News, New York Post, Deadline, The Week, @shaneharris, @aaronblake, @missy_ryan, @aynrandpaulryan, @scottbix, @bgrueskin, @clevewootson, @clevewootson, @jdawsey1, The Daily Wire, The Dossier, The Guardian, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, CBS News, Al Jazeera and Committee to Protect …
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Tyler Pager / @tylerpager: Earlier today, @CleveWootson and I were told we, as WashPost reporters, were not allowed to attend a briefing held by the Saudis after the Biden-MBS meeting despite all other U.S. media invited. No reason was given. A few hours later, we were invited. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Brent D. Griffiths / Insider: Biden says he's ‘sorry she feels that way’ in response to Jamal Khashoggi's fiancée saying 'the blood of MBS's next victim is on your hands'
The Hill: Washington Post publisher: Biden's ‘shameful’ fist bump with Saudi crown prince ‘worse than a handshake’
Peter Aitken / Fox News: Biden meets with Saudi Arabia's Prince Mohammed bin Salman, talking ‘energy security’
Steven Nelson / New York Post: Khashoggi fiancée says Biden owns ‘blood’ of next MBS victim after fist bump
Ted Johnson / Deadline: Joe Biden Says He Raised Jamal Khashoggi Murder At “Top Of Meeting” With Saudi Crown Prince; Washington Post Publisher Condemns POTUS Fist Bump With MBS
Brendan Morrow / The Week: Biden fist bumps Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
Shane Harris / @shaneharris: Saudi officials initially excluded two of my Washington Post colleagues from a planned briefing the government was holding. See explanation from the government's media consultant. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Blake / @aaronblake: “Don't kill me, I'm just the messenger” is quite the choice of words for someone who works for MBS. https://twitter.com/...
Missy Ryan / @missy_ryan: Two @washingtonpost reporters covering the POTUS trip to Middle East were initially excluded from a Saudi government briefing - the only journos from a major media outlet that weren't included. After the reporters raised it with the White House, they were allowed to attend. https://twitter.com/...
Holly Figueroa O'Reilly / @aynrandpaulryan: Nicolla Hewitt on why Saudi officials wouldn't let anyone from the Washington Post into the session: “Don't kill me, I'm just the messenger”. Yes. She really said that. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: This is just unbelievably bad. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / @clevewootson: @mcollinsNEWS @POTUS Some context: U.S. press pool ‘arrived after this interaction took place’ according to report, but Saudi State TV was pre-set and prepared to capture the interaction. The pool's movements are almost entirely dictated by the White House.
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / @clevewootson: Also important to note that whether it's a a fist bump or a handshake, MBS still gets what he's longed for: a very public display of validation by the leader of the free world.
Josh Dawsey / @jdawsey1: “don't kill me.” https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Saavedra / The Daily Wire: Washington Post Issues Statement About Biden Fist Bumping Saudi Crown Prince
Jordan Schachtel / The Dossier: Jamal Khashoggi was a jihadist, not a journalist
Bethan McKernan / The Guardian: Fist bumps as Joe Biden arrives to reset ties with ‘pariah’ Saudi Arabia
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Joe Biden says he raised Jamal Khashoggi murder during meeting with Saudi crown prince
Kathryn Watson / CBS News: Biden and Saudi crown prince begin crucial meeting with fist bump
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Simone Oliver steps down as global editor-in-chief of Vice Media Group's Refinery29 “to pursue other opportunities”; Oliver took on the role in September 2020 — Just shy of two years into the role, Simone Oliver is stepping down as global editor-in-chief of Vice Media Group's Refinery29.
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Gavin Bridge / Variety:
Analysis and estimates: the annual value of US TV and streaming sports rights will reach $21.5B in 2022 and $26.5B by 2023, a 74% increase since 2015 — F1's recent huge U.S. media rights hike — from $5 million a year to a reported $75M (+1,500%) to $90M (+1,700%) — has the feel of déjà vu.
Maria L. La Ganga / Los Angeles Times:
A Los Angeles Times reporter says two former top editors tried to kill a story about drug use by the University of Southern California's medical school dean — It would be hard to find a worse couple of years than 2016 and 2017 for two major Los Angeles institutions: the University of Southern California and The Times.
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@bernardclee, @jerrymberger, @yeseniaamaro, @anoushasakoui, @boadiceatx, @kevrector, @froomkin, @jayrosen_nyu, @gabekahn, @pringlelatimes, @laura_wingard and @equalityalec
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Bernard Lee / @bernardclee: Shocking stuff. This is just one part of the story, but I choose to believe all four reporters who worked with @PringleLATimes, and not @DavanMaharaj or @MarcDuvoisin. https://www.latimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@jerrymberger: Shining a spotlight on your own reporting conflicts is solid journalism ‘Bad City’ alleges bad behavior — by a medical school dean, USC and within The Times https://www.latimes.com/...
Yesenia Amaro / @yeseniaamaro: “Pringle told the paper's lawyer that, if the story was buried for months like the draft that had been killed, he'd file a complaint with the newspaper's human resources department.” A must-read story: https://www.latimes.com/...
@anoushasakoui: If this isn't a film I don't know what is....amazing review by @marialaganga - that moment of that conversation between @PringleLATimes with @jackfleonard ooof ‘Bad City’ alleges bad behavior — by a medical school dean, USC and within The Times https://www.latimes.com/...
@boadiceatx: Oh, great, one of the big editors in question is now at the SA Express-News. The linked article includes his response-so I'll leave interested parties to follow up and see if they seem more solid than they do to this newspaper consumer. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Rector / @kevrector: The surest sign of a strong journalism institution is when it unflinchingly gazes inward, too. Kudos to @PringleLATimes, @marialaganga, @meridak, @DrPatSoonShiong et al. https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: No one likes bashing editors more than me, but it sounds like the seminal moment in this drama was when the editors told Pringle he didn't have the story yet, which he didn't, and which led him to really getting the story. https://www.latimes.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Never heard of this happening before. Reporter and his editor suspect their bosses don't want to run a big and scandalous story, so to force the action they put four more reporters on the case— without the bosses knowing about it! New book out... https://www.latimes.com/...
Gabriel Kahn / @gabekahn: This is truly one of the most bizarre episodes of a newspaper airing its own dirty laundry, with several of the main accusations it levels at itself unsubstantiated (at least in this piece). https://www.latimes.com/...
Paul Pringle / @pringlelatimes: The L.A. Times examines my upcoming book on the USC scandals and the newsroom obstacles my colleagues and I faced in bringing the first one to light: ‘Bad City’ alleges bad behavior — by a medical school dean, USC and within The Times https://www.latimes.com/...
Laura Wingard / @laura_wingard: A must read story by any investigative reporter and editor. To think reporter @PringleLATimes would be chastised by editors for knocking on the door of the USC president's home to try one more time for a comment is unreal. Door knocking is part of the job. https://www.latimes.com/...
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Glenn Kessler's Washington Post “fact check” of an IndyStar story on a 10-year-old who had to get an abortion in Indiana mainstreamed doubting its credibility — On July 1, the Indianapolis Star reported that a 10-year-old rape victim was forced to travel from Ohio to Indiana to receive an abortion.
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Matt Christy / Fox 59: Abortion report confirms Indiana doctor followed law after AG vowed investigation
Media Matters for America: To deflect from shocking reality of Republican abortion bans, right-wing media are trying to make the Ohio case about immigration
Tom Scocca / @tomscocca: Glenn Kessler frantically brainstorming hypothetical ethical complaints about anything but his decision to publish disinformation in the Washington Post's fact-check column https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Oliver O'Connell / RedState: The 10-Year Old Ohio Girl Rape Story Turns Even More Horrific
María Luisa Paúl / Washington Post: Record shows Indiana doctor fulfilled duty to report 10-year-old's abortion
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News: Indiana attorney general says he is investigating doctor who treated 10-year-old rape victim
Isabela Dias / Mother Jones: Republicans Respond to 10-Year-Old's Abortion Case By Targeting Immigrants
Madeline Leesman / Townhall: Indiana AG to Investigate Doctor Who Provided Abortion to 10-Year-Old Rape Victim
David Podhaskie / THE JACKAL: Social Media is Breaking our Brains
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times: A 10-Year-Old Endures the Predictable Result of an Abortion Ban
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “Passions are already heated enough” says the @WSJ editorial board, after heating up passions by doubting reports of a 10 year-old rape victim who needed an abortion. “An Abortion Story Too Good to Confirm,” the Journal had said. It was later verified. https://www.wsj.com/...
Josh Taylor / @joshgnosis: I can kinda get why they wouldn't change the headline after the fact but this juxtaposition is just 🙃 https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Pepper / @davidpepper: Local journalists are kicking state AGs' asses. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy_nu: The story of the 10-year-old pregnant rape victim is growing more and more horrifying. Here's my analysis of the media's role in this fiasco. https://dankennedy.net/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: “...after no one had confirmed its accuracy,” says organization whose mission is to confirm the accuracy of stories. https://twitter.com/...
@kegill: @jayrosen_nyu @WSJ Jay, I gave up on the WSJ decades ago. Anything Murdoch touches is toxic and should die rather than provide a platform for a fringe GOP. I was more appalled at @washingtonpost and @GlennKesslerWP because I expect better from the Post.
Alexander McCoy / @alexandermccoy4: I also look forward to, every time a national security reporter publishes a story without revealing all their sourcing, Glenn Kessler immediately giving it twenty Pinocchios because he left a voicemail at the CIA and they didn't get back to him. https://twitter.com/...
Aria Gerson / @aria_gerson: Just to be clear: for newspaper reporters, any story that uses anonymous sources, those sources have to be cleared by editors first who know who the sources are + can verify + vet. We're not just throwing rumors out there https://twitter.com/...
@drskyskull: “The ten year old doesn't exist!” Later: “Okay, the ten year old exists, but she could've gotten a legal abortion in Ohio!” Now: “We're trying to prosecute the doctor in Indiana for performing the legal abortion.” https://twitter.com/...
Chase Woodruff / @dcwoodruff: The modern front-of-house Fact Check™ vertical is a bizarre institution. Their whole existence is predicated on (and helps reinforce) a belief in the primacy/sufficiency of just-the-facts journalism — so why, then, are most of them opinion columns? https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Bendery / @jbendery: I'm sharing this story here again. Read it. Good on @JuddLegum for providing this narrative of what happened here. https://popular.info/...
Lindsay Beyerstein / @beyerstein: Kessler's fact check is logically flawed, empirically flawed about the realities of rape and criminal justice, inflammatory, and out of step with journalistic standards. https://twitter.com/...
Emily Nunn / @emilyrnunn: It's shocking to think that real news organizations like WSJ and WaPo would fall prey and then go along willingly with alarmingly anti-female conspiracies and lies pushed by the far right and Fox. But it's happening. And I fear it's going to get worse. https://popular.info/...
Jeremy Littau / @jeremylittau: A lot has been said about that mess by Kessler, but this part is what gets me: he doesn't have any real conclusion other than “it's really hard to know.” Beyond the half-baked methods in the piece, there's no point to publishing if it doesn't even lay claim to adding clarity. https://twitter.com/...
Barry Petchesky / @barry: Hey maybe “fact checking” a true and accurate story to fecklessly imply it was made-up should disqualify one from their job as a fact checker. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Blickstein / @adamblickstein: This entire episode further confirms how the gravitational force right wing media disinformation pulls all media in its direction, even if mainstream reporters don't consciously realize it
Abdallah Fayyad / @abdallah_fayyad: According to Glenn Kessler, the real fact-checker is...*checks notes*...the cops https://twitter.com/...
Scott Heins / @scottheins: Glenn Kessler, the WSJ editorial board, and every single editor who thought it was bold “maybe not what you wanna hear but how we have to do our work” journalism to try and discount the Ohio child rape story...they are all a disgrace to the profession
Deborah Copaken / @dcopaken: Too little, too late @WSJ. I know @srudavsky, who wrote the original story. She's as honest, professional, & trustworthy as they come. More saliently, a pregnant 10-year-old, A PRIORI, was raped. Whether or not her rapist has been charged or located. https://www.wsj.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: Great piece, to which I'd add: the on-the-record source, the doctor, was labeled “an activist” by the WaPO fact-checker, had her faced pasted on Fox News and is now being threatened with prosecution. Under these circumstances how many such sources can we expect in the future? https://twitter.com/...
Joan Esposito / @joanespositochi: Shameful how easily the media attacked reporting by an experienced, credible local reporter at the @indystar. Looking at you @NPR @washingtonpost @WSJ. https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: 1. THERE WAS NEVER ANY REASON TO DOUBT THE STORY THAT A TEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL WAS FORCED TO TRAVEL TO INDIANA FOR AN ABORTION. The sourcing was strong. The reporter is reliable. The entire thing was a right-wing fever dream. Follow along if interested. https://popular.info/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Good job by @JuddLegum on the timeline of a story which showed how political influence campaigns work . Winding through Murdoch-owned properties - WSJ, New York Post and Fox News. Aided by a terrible judgement call from the Washington Post https://popular.info/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: one question I would love to have answered is how exactly Glenn Kessler and his team choose which individual stories they deem deserving of doubt-casting https://twitter.com/...
@thehowie: The story was brutal. Of course, better to have it confirmed. But @WSJ owes this family HUGE apology for the dereliction of journalistic responsibility in calling this fanciful without doing their own homework. They basically did WORSE than what they accused others of doing... https://twitter.com/...
Gabriel Roth / @gabrielroth: If you write a “fact-checking” column and you set out to check a fact and you're unable to determine whether the fact is true, one option would be simply not to write a column about it, on the grounds that your column is supposed to contain fact-checking and you have not done any
WGN-TV: Indiana Attorney General threatens license of doctor who provided abortion to 10-year-old rape victim
Justin Baragona / thedailybeast.com: Jim Jordan Has No Regrets for Calling 10-Year-Old Rape Victim's Abortion a ‘Lie’
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
After Roe, reporters may have to rely on a single source, on the record, to tell stories about the end of legal abortion, as others stay quiet to avoid arrest
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Nicole Carroll / USA Today: Police accounts kept changing on Uvalde. A girl's rape story was called a lie. We reported truth.
Bethany Bruner / @bethany_bruner: I was the ONLY reporter in the courtroom this morning as the man accused of raping a 10-year-old girl, impregnating her, leading to an abortion in Indiana, was arraigned. This confirms that the case exists. https://www.dispatch.com/...
Eric Kleefeld / Media Matters for America: National focus on Ohio abortion case highlights the importance of local newspaper reporting
Tim Marchman / VICE: Washington Post Columnist Invokes Relatives Having Been Raped to Defend Botched Fact Check
Glenn Kessler / @glennkesslerwp: The last line of this fact check was: “If a rapist is ever charged, the fact finally would have more solid grounding.” Now, a rapist has been charged and the story has been updated. Getting lots of angry emails but journalism is an accumulation of facts. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Katie Robertson / New York Times: 10-Year-Old Ohio Girl Became Flash Point in Abortion Debate
Nicole Carroll / @nicole_carroll: Police accounts kept changing on Uvalde response. A story about a 10-year-old girl's abortion was called a lie. Our newsrooms, @statesman @indystar @DispatchAlerts, reported and published the hard truth this week. Here's how and why they did it. https://www.usatoday.com/... @usatoday
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill: Attorney for Indiana doctor tells AG to cease and desist ‘false’ statements
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: The Wall Street Journal has added an editor's note to its editorial regarding the 10-year-old Ohio rape victim who had to travel to Indiana for an abortion 1/: https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Wood / UPROXX: Jim Jordan Refuses To Apologize The 10-Year-Old Child He Accused Of Lying About Being Impregnated By A Rapist
Tom Scocca / @tomscocca: The question, at bottom, is why Glenn Kessler saw an urgent need to challenge a reporter who'd reported that a law had done the thing the law was written to do
@usatoday: “When commentators and politicians scoff at stories of child rape as ‘another lie’ or ‘not true’ we find the truth. Find it, and report it. With great deliberation, concern and care,” writes Carroll. https://www.usatoday.com/...
Laurel Duggan / The Daily Caller: Mother Of 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Says Everything Said About Alleged Rapist Is ‘A Lie’
Connie Schultz / @connieschultz: Hello from Ohio, where the same Republicans who insist that every pregnancy must result in the birth of a child tried to pretend a 10-year-old child who was raped did not exist. In her time of greatest need they were nowhere to be found. https://www.usatoday.com/...
Katie Robertson / @katie_robertson: Amid a storm of opinions, local news reporters have been the only ones serving up facts in this case https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ashe Schow / The Daily Wire: 10-Year-Old's Abortion Doc Reported Rape After Media Queries, Listed Rapist As Minor
Marisa Sarnoff / Law & Crime: Indiana University Health Finds Doctor Who Provided Abortion to 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Was ‘In Compliance With Privacy Laws’
Izzy Karpinski / Fox 59: ‘Everything they are saying against him is a lie’: Mother of 10-year-old rape victim defends suspect to reporter
Glenn Kessler / @glennkesslerwp: And fyi, for more than a year I have had a policy of not reading notifications. It's made life on this toxic platform much easier. So if you are screaming at @GlennKesslerWP I'm not hearing it. I do respond to thoughtful or provocative emails, though.
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Re the rape case of the 10-year-old Ohio girl: Left: WSJ Edit Page yesterday calls it a ‘fanciful tale’ Right: Columbus Dispatch today reports arrest of suspect https://twitter.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: Unimaginable abortion stories will become more common. Is American journalism ready? (No.) I wrote about the 10-year-old and the fact-checking. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: Sexual assault stories are among the hardest to cover because by definition the specific act almost never has eyewitnesses. It's hard to corroborate. But that does not excuse casting doubt on victim claims with no evidence when there's so little incentive for them to lie
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / @aoc: 80%+ of rapes go unreported to police. Should those be treated as false too? How do your opinions impact this coverage of assault? What impact have your actions had on that little girl and her family? As “fact checker,” how do your positions impact @washingtonpost's coverage? https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Fitting that perhaps the biggest abortion story since the SCOTUS overturning of Roe v. Wade stems from regional/local newspapers, because that's where the reporting on this issue will be playing out for months and years. A brand-new test for a hollowed-out American media sector. https://twitter.com/...
Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie: And if that's how you operate, you have revealed an enormous bias that prevents you from doing credible work as a reporter or as a debunker. And that's what I mean when I say misogyny is a huge security failure. This is how disinformation purveyors use misogyny to promulgate lies https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Rupar / @atrupar: it's remarkable how tweets like this overwhelmingly come from journalists looking to deflect from valid criticisms of their work https://twitter.com/...
Mark Harris / @markharrisnyc: Correcting the record? 🖕 The record, as recounted by honest people, was fine. @WSJopinion, which is led by Paul Gigot, spun a disgusting fantasy about the story being “too good” to be real, and then had to eat its words. All involved should resign. https://www.wsj.com/...
@thehowie: One of the most shameful moments by mainstream journalism. Which heads will roll? Or is this just the cost of doing business in the Murdoch empire. @WSJ owes a LOT of people an apology, starting with the family. https://www.wsj.com/...
@sorayamcdonald: Some of y'all hate “believe women” so much you don't even believe women journalists. But that's on y'all. Bethany did the work. Bethany got the scoop. Believe Bethany. https://twitter.com/...
@sorayamcdonald: The WSJ and WaPo made fools of themselves impugning the credibility of the Indy Star and reporters Shari Rudavsky and Rachel Fradette. It's infuriating. They should apologize for their massive, arrogant fuck-up, which has made life worse for many. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Jill Filipovic / @jillfilipovic: A lot has been made of the fact that the initial story was a “single-source story.” But the source was the doctor who performed the abortion! That is a very solid source — and doctors cannot hand journalists a patient's private medical records. https://twitter.com/...
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: I sincerely hope that journalists do not fail this moment. But I don't know. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: A 10-year-old Ohio girl's abortion ordeal, and how it became national news - updated with comment from the OB-GYN at the heart of the story - and Indiana AG's promise to try to get her medical license taken away My NPR story with @sarahmccammon https://www.npr.org/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: So @WSJopinion finally admits they screwed up their piece on the Ohio rape case — but they do so in the most half-assed way possible. Their original editorial did a lot more than “wonder” about the case. They had categorized it as a “fanciful” tale. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona: Fox News host Emily Compagno, yesterday, on the story of a 10-year-old rape victim who had to go to Indiana for an abortion: “What I find so deeply offensive, they had to make up a fake one!” Meanwhile, the alleged rapist was just arrested and charged. https://www.dispatch.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: 3. Rudavsky sourcing was solid. Papers run stories based on ANONYMOUS sources all the time, which are inherently less reliable. But Rudavsky had an on-the-record quote from Dr. Caitlin Bernard, the obstetrician-gynecologist who performed the abortion. https://popular.info/...
Susan Matthews / Slate: The Worst Part About the “Unlikely” Story of a 10-Year-Old Who Needed an Abortion in Ohio
@bartenderhemry: “This story turned out to be true, but the fact that it FELT false to me says a lot about society” -Glenn Kessler https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Perez / @andrewperezdc: The @washingtonpost fact checker has trained himself to view doctors who provide abortions as “activists” on “one side of the debate” who thus cannot be believed. He probably thinks that's being objective. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Valenti / All in Her Head: They Will Never Believe Us
Andrew Bates / @andrewjbates46: The headline of this morning's @WSJopinion editorial, “An Abortion Story Too Good to Confirm,” is grotesque. They should update it to “We apologize.” https://twitter.com/...
Tom Scocca / @tomscocca: Why were so many people, including the Washington Post's fact-check desk, so invested in acting like it was unbelievable that a no-exceptions abortion ban would block someone from getting a necessary abortion?
Tom Scocca / @tomscocca: These laws are real! If reality is too shocking for you to deal with, you shouldn't have a job in the news business.
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Two Gannett papers, one in Indiana and one in Ohio, have humanized the new American reality about abortion. And in doing so, they have highlighted the inhumanity of some partisan punditry. https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@angryblacklady: but just yesterday Glenn Greenwald said this story was fake in service to his conservative overlords who don't want you to think about the chaos they have unleashed on this country. https://twitter.com/...
Libby Watson / @libbycwatson: absolutely insane to imagine you can just expect a doctor tell you where a 10 year old rape victim lives https://twitter.com/...
Libby Watson / @libbycwatson: especially in this climate! i know reporters who have worked on rape stories would tell you the first thing you need to do is build trust. you can't just barrel in like “hey i'm the pinocchios guy from the washington post, tell me where the girl lives”
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: Lol the @washingtonpost fact checker guy. Anyway, as I frequently tell you—the political media is fail... You guys know what I'm gonna say. This is just example 9 zillion. https://twitter.com/...
Warren Gunnels / @gunnelswarren: In the warped mind of @GlennKesslerWP, if your 1 source is an OBGYN with the guts to go on the record about a 10-year old girl who was raped & unable to get an abortion in Ohio that story isn't fit to print. But if your 1 source is a friend funded by the Koch billionaires run it. https://twitter.com/...
Libby Watson / @libbycwatson: and then of course this https://twitter.com/...
John R Stanton / @dcbigjohn: And also baseless claims by well known bad actors seeking to undermine criticism of their policies doing exactly what they are intended to do. He definitely responds to those. https://twitter.com/...
Helen Kennedy / @helenkennedy: Well this is goddamn pathetic. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Watson / @tomwatson: The combination of arrogance and lunacy in this tweet are hard to match in the annals of fact-checking journalism. https://twitter.com/...
@benjaminmillar: To: glenn.kessler@washpost.com Subject: Media folk making not reading replies their entire personality does wonderful things for public perception of journalism, just terrific stuff https://twitter.com/...
@nameshiv: The alleged fact checker who failed to check the facts has kindly pointed out that he is actually correct to not check the facts because he also doesnt check the replies https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: I want j schools to do a specific course on this. Sexual assault stories are uniquely hard to report out. But no one does this. I learned how to report these things the hard way, with conflicting stories and lawyers. https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: This is wild and abhorrent misunderstanding of sexual assault, and especially when it involves a minor. https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: Why would a 10 year take a rapist to court? Lotta men demonstrating that they've never had to care for a child in any meaningful way.
Alex Howard / @digiphile: If you're a journalist on Twitter, please read your @-mentions & DMs. If you don't want to hear feedback, or answer questions from @WashingtonPost subscribers (like me) here, please delete your account, & post your email address on articles. Thank you for correcting the record. https://twitter.com/...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: Law prof @JonathanTurley wrote an op-ed in the @nypost questioning a report about a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio who was forced to travel to Indiana for an abortion The column was printed with the URL “activist-tale-of-a-10-year-old-rape- victims-abortion-looks-like-a- lie” https://twitter.com/...
@ijbailey: @laurahazardowen This is so important in a post-Roe world, but also one in which most rapes aren't even reported. Should we refuse to report anything that doesn't go through official law enforcement channels? And, as you alluded to, for a lot of legit reasons, one source might be all we get.
Sarah Weinman / @sarahw: @laurahazardowen What's telling about this whole paragraph is that it could just as easily apply to one-source stories from police departments https://twitter.com/...
Peter Sterne / @petersterne: @laurahazardowen I think it's worth pointing out that Kessler's claim that the Star published the story without making any effort to confirm is completely baseless. We simply don't know what steps the paper took to confirm the story!
Peter Sterne / @petersterne: @laurahazardowen You can say “the paper only attributed the story to one source” or “the story only had a single on-the-record source” but there's no way for an outside columnist like Kessler to know what reporting the paper did that didn't make it into print.
Peter Sterne / @petersterne: @laurahazardowen Right, and this is one reason I don't like referring to Kessler as a fact-checker. Journalists should turn over their reporting to actual fact-checkers, the people who work for their news org and are tasked with confirming facts internally before publication.
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: @petersterne totally. i don't understand the seeming expectation that the paper should have turned over its reporting/unidentified sources to an outside fact-checker. there's a lot of assuming that not responding to his questions means it didn't happen
@erikwemple: All told, I counted 12 sentences that cast doubt on the story — they all stand, uncorrected, alongside an “editor's note” that guts them all. If ever the WSJ editorial board had some editing to do. 3/
Jessica Valenti / @jessicavalenti: Only 5% of rapes result in an arrest. That doesn't mean the other 95% didn't happen https://twitter.com/...
Cristina Silva / @cristymsilva: Countless abortion stories will never be told at all. It won't be because they're lies. It will be because telling them is too risky, because patients and doctors and staffers and volunteers will face arrest for coming forward. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Irin Carmon / @irin: “Kessler didn't note in the original column that some of the agencies he'd contacted hadn't responded.” One of those agencies had in fact received the abuse report. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Olivia Krauth / @oliviakrauth: I've heard this song before. https://twitter.com/...
Susan Benkelman / @sbenkelman: “Countless abortion stories will never be told at all. It won't be because they're lies. It will be because telling them is too risky, because patients and doctors and staffers and volunteers will face arrest for coming forward.” Well said @laurahazardowen https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: An absolutely disgusting excuse for journalism, @WSJ. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Perez / @andrewperezdc: Nice, would really like to see an investigation into the decisions to write and publish this shit too https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Ed Bott / @edbott: The @WSJ Editorial page? I have never seen a more wretched hive of scum and villainy... https://twitter.com/...
Moira Donegan / @moiradonegan: A sexual assault survivor was not allowed to cover sexual violence at the Post. But this guy is. https://twitter.com/...
Jane Coaston / @janecoaston: If the lede of your op-ed is contradicted by the editors note to the op-ed than perhaps the problem is more pronounced https://twitter.com/...
Laura Bassett / @lebassett: Mealy-mouthed update on an editorial that still has the same hed and dek: “An Abortion Story Too Good to Confirm” “Biden told a tale of a 10-year old rape victim that no one can identify.” Imagine calling a 10-year-old's rape “too good to confirm.” https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: All souls who would seek to know the nature of @WSJopinion read herein. https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: And yet, the headline is still An Abortion Story Too Good to Confirm" https://twitter.com/...
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: Thanks to the local journalists who did “confirm” the story, including @bethany_bruner, who was in court. HOWEVER, the idea that each horror story resulting from Dobbs and these extreme state laws should be presumed false is an attempt to hide the consequences of their policies.
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: Yes, reporting like this absolutely must continue. But, we already know — by looking at the policing of pregnancy outcomes under Roe and the pre-Roe history — what can and will happen. Add in tech-related surveillance, and there will be new problems as well. This is reality.
Cristian Farias / @cristianafarias: Not to pile on, but the implication here is a that our understanding of reality should depend chiefly on the word of cops and the criminal legal system. Uvalde, the murder of George Floyd, and other horrors should've laid that idea to rest. https://twitter.com/...
@coreypein: This warrants a retraction, not a fucking mealy-mouthed “editor's note” on an unsigned column that cast false aspersions on journalists who did their jobs. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Kleefeld / @erickleefeld: Step 1: Wall Street Journal editorial, “An Abortion Story Too Good to Confirm.” ("All kinds of fanciful tales travel far on social media these days...") Step 2: WSJ posts editor's note, acknowledging that actual journalists at a different publication have now confirmed the story. https://twitter.com/...
@seandkennedy: Editorial pages are separate from a newspaper's reporters and news departments, but as someone who has worked in newspapers for close to 20 years, this is a nightmare. Unacceptable. https://twitter.com/...
Kelley Root / @kelleyroot: Sadly, this was not a “fanciful tale.” Children do get raped. Children do get pregnant. It's a real issue and it must be addressed. https://twitter.com/...
@jayshams: If only the Wall Street Journal had the resources to report instead of publish unfounded opinions... https://twitter.com/...
Scott Butterworth / @mrbutterworth: @ErikWemple Or retracting altogether
@blackamazon: Again when do we discuss the laziness of journalism when it comes to marginalized or victimized people https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: WSJ editorial page debunked a true story. https://twitter.com/...
Charles Ornstein / @charlesornstein: Today, an editorial by @WSJopinion suggested the story of the 10-year-old was false. Will the editorial board apologize? Does this change its view? https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alec MacGillis / @alecmacgillis: Just hours after this editorial appeared in WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela / @nataliapetrzela: Gleefully calling any story about a child's abuse and abortion “fanciful” or “too good” to be true is absolutely 🤮 https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: The editor's note leaves an astounding juxtaposition, as it cites the Dispatch as confirming a story that the Journal itself had characterized with this headline and subhead 2/: https://twitter.com/...
Eliza Orlins / @elizaorlins: Grateful for the journalists who show up. I'm used to people questioning what I see as a public defender. Yet, everything I talk about is happening in plain sight in open court. Imagine how different things could be if journalists actually covered what happens in local courts. https://twitter.com/...
Norman Ornstein / @normornstein: We can all yearn for the day when the Wall Street Journal editorial page apologizes https://twitter.com/...
Bradley P. Moss / @bradmossesq: .@EmilyCompagno FYI, feel free to admit you messed up https://twitter.com/...
Rex Chapman / @rexchapman: There is no bottom. https://twitter.com/...
Melody Schreiber / @m_scribe: “If performing or receiving an abortion now counts as activism, well, then journalists will need to be okay quoting ‘activists’...” Thanks to @laurahazardowen for this. Also if getting an abortion makes you an activist, some journalist would be activists. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Amanda Becker / @amandabecker: Put down the WaPo. *Definitely* put down the WSJ op-ed page. This right here is the analytical take you need to read about our post-Roe world, the unthinkable situations that will nonetheless be true, and if/how MSM can meet this moment: https://twitter.com/...
Isaac Saul / @ike_saul: I mean, this is so, so f*cking bad. It is more than correction worthy. @WSJopinion do the right thing. https://twitter.com/...
Isaac Saul / @ike_saul: Biden asked the nation to imagine what its like for that 10 year old girl — a rape victim, pregnant — to have to travel to get abortion services. Now we should also imagine what it's like for her family to watch an unaccountable media ecosystem slander the story as a lie.
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing: “Fact checkers” attacked a 10-year-old rape victim's abortion story, and the rest is conservative history
Nick Riccardi / @nickriccardi: Good @laurahazardowen piece on the 10-yr-old's abortion story. We are going to have to get used to “thinly sourced” stories like this because so much of this stuff is, by law if not inclination, is private. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Nick Riccardi / @nickriccardi: (Also tbc as I tweeted earlier an on the record source with 1sthand knowledge is not thinly-sourced, I'm using that ironically)
Noah Berlatsky / @nberlat: Glenn Kessler and the post failed their readers, and need to update policies and figure out how not to do that again. https://twitter.com/...
Kat Abu / @abughazalehkat: This is the PJ Media reporter Megan Fox who spurred the gross and disproven WSJ op-ed which described a 10-year-old's rape as a “fanciful tale”. Fox is now taking credit for the rapist's arrest and ignoring her extremely gross 35+ tweet thread from a week ago. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matt Ford / @fordm: Not identifying underage victims of sexual abuse by name is, for very good and very obvious reasons, one of the few universal rules left in American journalism. Exploiting it like this is shameful. https://twitter.com/...
David Pepper / @davidpepper: The national right-wing disinformation machine whipped up a frenzy to deny the reality of the horrific laws their extremists are imposing on a majority who disagree. Ohio AG Yost was a prime instigator. And they were 100% wrong. This will happen again and again... https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: I'm so very NOT shocked that the WSJ editorial page was on the wrong side of this. https://twitter.com/...
Connie Schultz / @connieschultz: I have many words for this. https://twitter.com/...
Emily Wilder / @vv1lder: “If performing or receiving an abortion now counts as activism, well, then journalists will need to be okay quoting ‘activists,’ unless they only want to tell the anti-abortion movement's side.” https://twitter.com/...
@thesarahkelly: I'm bracing myself for some really gross discourse about whether reporters who've had abortions can cover reproductive rights fairly https://twitter.com/...
@jesseltaylor: so, you know how one side insisted that the 10 year old rape victim was fabricated, then when it was revealed she wasn't, immediately leapt to immigrant-bashing? well, both sides https://twitter.com/...
@sluggahjells: @GlennKesslerWP One @GlennKesslerWP should issue an apology to @srudavsky & @Rachel_Fradette. By even writing his latest terrible “fact checker” piece, he went and delegitimized their reporting in the midst of major right-wing skeptics. Simply put, Glenn Kessler just isn't fit for that role. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jim Bazán / @jamesbazan: @GlennKesslerWP And yet you asserted it was not a fact without a factual basis for that assertion.
David Darmofal / @david_darmofal: Just a reminder that Glenn Kessler tried to raise questions about whether this girl even existed. There is often a moral bankruptcy in WaPo's “fact-checking”. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Scire / @sarahscire: “Countless abortion stories will never be told at all. It won't be because they're lies.” such a powerful clear-eyed piece here from @laurahazardowen https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Sarah Posner / @sarahposner: Read every single word of this: https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Chapman / @fawfulfan: The fact you think there has to be an arrest to corroborate a rape story is itself a really egregious error of judgment. *Most* rapists are never caught, any law enforcement or survivor advocate group can tell you that. The word from a named doctor on the record should be enough. https://twitter.com/...
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: If you're a journalist who works for the Wall Street Journal, how do you feel about your paper muddying the waters in the rape of a 10 year old? Does that make you feel good about your work place? Do you think it reflects well on you? https://twitter.com/...
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