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The Washington Post reported that George Floyd was shot to death, then refused to issue a retraction after correcting the article. Apparently, this is just standard practice now.
This is the original headline – note the word “shot”:
It wasn’t just a typo – someone working for the Washington Post also tweeted this out.
How is it possible that a minimum of two WaPo employees – plus presumably an editor – believed that George Floyd was shot?
It’s beyond the pale that this could even happen – but after it did happen, what did the WaPo do? Issue a retraction?
Nope. They changed the post on their site without adding any note, then deleted the tweet. They mentioned the deleted tweet – and claimed they deleted it because it “included language that was changed after publish [sic].”
We've deleted a previous tweet for this form that included language that was changed after publish.
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 24, 2022
This isn’t normal, just so you understand. I’ve obviously studied journalism, and run a very successful news website for nearly a decade. You can correct a typo without mentioning it, but if you actually print wrong information – such as “George Floyd was shot to death by cops” – you have to put a correction, noting the change. You kind of have to have a background in journalism to understand how big of a deal it is to print totally false information and not issue the correction – the tweet that doesn’t even use the word “error” or “correction” is just unbelievable.
It’s just very unprofessional, and shows that these people don’t take their jobs seriously. And why would they? They print fake news. It’s not a serious job.
Imagine if the Washington Post had printed that JFK died when Lee Harvey Oswald kneeled on his neck? It would be less stupid than this, as George Floyd’s death had a much bigger impact on society (and was a lot more recent).
