Op-Ed Sections, Threat or Menace?

No sandwich politics on the sandwich journalism board!

 

Boooooooo

 

This note may help add context...

https://x.com/ErikWemple/status/1763646613778563225?s=20

 

Exiled NYT Staffer Vindicated After Journalists Insisted Chick-Fil-A Story Had to Be Fake

The fact that the criticcs stood by their previous tweets says a lot - and its not good.

 

Glad to hear there's some corroboration.

 

Is The Atlantic in the business of not fact checking something like that beforehand?

Of course not.

 

"sando". lol

 

Depends how they do it. What's the standard?

I don't think, for example, we've yet heard from anyone - anonymous or on the record - who was actually in the room and saw it happen.

 

Wait.. so the "corroboration" is that this isn't the first time he told this story?

 

Wemple followed up with this thread. At the time, it escalated to an actual HR issue with the rep when the James Bennett (Rubenstein's boss) made a stink about it.



You may not view that as enough corroboration, I dunno.

I just think it's interesting that folks thought The Atlantic would run that anecdote without checking up on it at all. Comical, really. The Atlantic stands to lose a lot of credibility if it's wrong. Why wouldn't it do its due diligence?

 

still at it

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