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The Associated Press (AP) reporter behind the outlet’s now-retracted story about “Russian missiles” has been fired.
The article had erroneously claimed that a “senior U.S. intelligence official” said “Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people.”
The outlet took the article down the following day, replacing it with an editor’s note that informed readers that “subsequent reporting showed that the missiles were Russian-made and most likely fired by Ukraine in defense against a Russian attack.” Before the retraction was issued, the bogus report was widely shared and cited by countless news outlets.
On Monday, AP fired James LaPorta, the investigative reporter responsible for the story, according to the Daily Beast.
The article, which was co-written by LaPorta and John Leicester (who still works at the AP), attributed the information to a single “senior U.S. intelligence official,” despite the outlet’s rule that it “routinely seeks and requires more than one source when sourcing is anonymous.”
The AP allows for only one exception — when “material comes from an authoritative figure who provides information so detailed that there is no question of its accuracy.” But evidently, this incident did not fit the criteria, as the outlet fully retracted the report.
“The rigorous editorial standards and practices of The Associated Press are critical to AP’s mission as an independent news organization. To ensure our reporting is accurate, fair and fact-based, we abide by and enforce these standards, including around the use of anonymous sources,” an AP spokesperson told the Daily Beast.
Source: The Daily Beast
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Grizz Mann
November 28, 2022 at 6:42 am
Worry not. CNN and MSNBC need good journalists
Jim
November 28, 2022 at 3:50 pm
About damn time they started firing the so-called reporters and news TV reporters who have caused so much damage to America with their lies and covering up for the traitor china joe. People who commit treason need to be hung.
Jimmy F
November 28, 2022 at 5:44 pm
Ooh, yeah, the Associated Press, that bastion of true and accurate journalism. Give me a break. It’s getting much easier to expose liars these days, and the MSM Media is starting to see that they are in the wrong USA if they plan to continue lying unabated and thinking they are privileged enough to get a away with it. The new Twitter management will make certain that they will only get one chance to lie about anything before having to retract it and then fire the foolish journalist who thought they could create some bogus leftist narrative that the public would accept like dopey sheep. Granted, there are far too many sheep that are lazy and willing to be spoon fed with leftist mush from the MSM. I don’t think that will be sustainable after the reckonings in 2023. We’ll just have to see if leftists will realize their ideologies are about to be dismantled in a big way, and it will be painful to continue in their lying ways.
Ron C
November 29, 2022 at 12:04 am
I don’t understand why they are firring reports now for lying when they were giving Pulitzer Prizes when T rump was in office to lying reporters…??? Any guess?