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Re:Sovereign writers and Substack by haberman on Monday March 22, 2021 @08:54PM (#26549589)
Glenn Greenwald gets into this a lot. As one recent example, WaPo misquoted Trump's comments on his infamous phone call with the Georgia secretary of state and this was not corrected until two months later when the Wall Street Journal obtained a recording of the call: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-do-big-media-outlets-so...
Re:Sovereign writers and Substack by refurb on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:55AM (#26551276)
Indeed. Readers of WaPo should be outraged the paper took one source at their word when it came to statements from the President. Zero confirmation.

And it turns out it was all made up.