The Washington Post issued the mother of all corrections to its story that smeared the Covington Catholic kids over their altercation with Nathan Phillips.
Check this out:
The Post has issued an Editor’s Note about updates to its initial coverage of the Jan. 18 incident at the Lincoln Memorial: https://t.co/rhzKZ1715K
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 1, 2019
We’ve also deleted this Jan. 19 tweet in light of later developments. For more, see the Editor’s Note. pic.twitter.com/O7qCSnBMPO
In a Friday night update in the midst of a massive lawsuit, Washington Post tries to quietly acknowledge, and downplay, its layers of false and defamatory reporting on the Covington High School boys who attended the March for Life. pic.twitter.com/acjTbK8FOV
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) March 1, 2019
Wow. I think some of the fault lies in the lack of information available early on, but their fault was to go along with the popular liberal narrative at the time instead of checking their facts and making sure they were accurate. Now it looks like it’s gonna cost them bigtime:
I asked Nicholas Sandmann’s attorneys whether WaPo’s editors note changes the lawsuit. They said no, the note is “barely worth commenting on.” https://t.co/XwEXgjflyv
— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) March 2, 2019
Attorneys for Nicholas Sandmann—the Covington student accused of smirking at Phillips—were not satisfied with the editor’s note.
“What The Washington Post put out is barely worth comment,” Todd McMurtry, an attorney for Sandmann, told Reason. “WaPo committed gross journalistic malpractice and cannot undo its deeds with an editor’s note that purports to correct the record over a month after it led a frenzied mob in trashing a minor’s reputation. The Sandmanns would never accept half of a half-measure from an organization that still refuses to own up to its error.”
Good for them. If the only way the mainstream media is going to learn to actually practice the journalistic standards they espouse is a huge lawsuit, then so be it.