AP fired reporter after dangerous blunder. Slack chats reveal chaotic process

Re:AP fired reporter after dangerous blunder. Slack chats re... by ajross on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @07:41PM (#33713592)

> Why is "Ukraine fires on Poland, blames Russia" not news?

Because that's not what happened? That's spin. In fact Ukraine jumped on this story only once the AP published it. It's popular to attribute this to Ukrainian propaganda in some circles, but (heh, again getting to the actual subject at hand) that's not something you can report unless you can find evidence.

All the facts we know point to the Ukrainian government being just as fooled by the AP story as we were.

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Re:AP fired reporter after dangerous blunder. Slack chats re... by bombcar on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @08:14PM (#33713821)

And it’s not impossible to dream up a world where that kind of mistake would actually get Article 5 moving.

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Re:AP fired reporter after dangerous blunder. Slack chats re... by pessimizer on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @08:58PM (#33714167)

Ukraine is still insisting that they didn't fire the missile. It's not an oversight or a misinterpretation.

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Re:AP fired reporter after dangerous blunder. Slack chats re... by eshch on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @11:38PM (#33715252)

Ukraine should know not from AP whose missile it was, but they are still in denial, can you imagine?

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