“Failed To Meet Standards”
No, it was complete bullsh*t and it was full of lies.
Jesus.
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Hmmmmm…it ‘failed to meet standards’ BUT it was published anyway. The Editor was concerned but not until AFTER Donnie threw Navarro under the bus. Meadows is rushing out there to assure us that Fauci is a good guy and hoping against hope that Pete will continue to play the ‘suckee’ of Trump. Honestly.
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Still no editorials or articles on how Navarro’s references and links are bogus, in many cases actually contradicting what he asserts that they “prove”. Nothing other than Kevin Drum’s in Mother Jones: “Always Click the Link”
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/07/always-click-the-link-2/
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The next day, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows denied in a statement shared with TPM that President Trump gave Navarro the clear to publish his caustic op-ed against Fauci. Meadows issued his denial of Trump’s role in Navarro’s op-ed in a Los Angeles Times report where an administration official claimed that “not only was (Navarro) authorized by Trump, he was encouraged.”
Who to believe? Who to believe? Such a dilemma. 
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Gannett’s Board of Directors should do the honorable thing and fire him.
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“But we printed it anyway, dears readers! Sucks to be you, doesn’t it? Sincerely, USA Today”
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In union there is strength.
[Now you’ve gone and made me feel gilty.]
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If USA Today had any integrity at all, they wouldn’t run anything by Navarro at all, on any subject. Remember, this was the guy who cited a fictional China “expert” named “Ron Vara” in six of his own books, who turned out not to exist. He’s a dishonest charlatan from way back.
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Well, I guess the only way to atone for this egregious journalistic mistake is to print an opinion piece by Tom Cotton.
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I am truly shoc
Nah, I (and, frankly everybody else) already knew that.
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How did this get published at all without any fact-checking of the statements made in the op-ed? I get that it was an opinion piece, but if I write something loaded with statements contrary to fact, I’m not going to get published.
This is where the media let the American people down on a daily basis. This is now out there as ‘fact’ because the paper published it. No one cares now that it failed to meet standards. Those standards should have been met before it was put to print.
Shame on UselessA Today for yet another massive failure to its greater mission.
Unless that greater mission is just to make money. And then, if that’s the case, a boycott of the paper and its advertisers is in order - the only place this rag shows up is in business travelers’ hotels and those hotels are mostly empty these days (spoken as one who knows from first hand experience).
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They actually do the right thing a lot. They’re not the NY Post.
What are you suggesting? Trump doesn’t even know Ron Vara! Never met him before in his life!
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Yes, it’s an opinion piece and doesn’t have the same standards as news. But if you say in your op-ed “Fauci has been disastrously wrong about everything and must resign immediately!”, but of the examples you cite half of them are where he was not actually wrong and the other half you agreed with him, that’s where fact-checking comes in. Newspapers shouldn’t simply publish lying, disingenuous arguments simply because the person making them works for the president.
And Steinberg didn’t publish it because he things “both sides” have equal merit.
Whaaa??? If they don’t have merit, why publish them at all?
He did it because it’s important to know what vile people are thinking too.
Why? If you’re saying up front that they’re vile, they can get their opinions out through their own voices rather than using the limited space in the paper.
Also it’s pretty funny that you’re citing “cancel culture” on a topic where an advisor to the president is literally calling for “cancelling” another, more widely respected, more correct member of the government, and it’s already happening.
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I’m sorry, I’m struggling to reconcile your attached photo to your statement, as it seems tremendously ironic for you to do so. I agree that this should be fact checked at time of publication but I disagree that this makes Sternberg some kind of irresponsible hack that needs to be lectured about the importance of a free press that covers all points of view, no matter how heinous. Publication of an opinion isn’t a de facto endorsement.
Papers don’t exist to publish just the part of things you want to hear, otherwise you don’t want news, you want an echo chamber. That’s what Orwell’s trying to say.
Can’t hide behind standards if you don’t apply them in the first place.
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‘Cancel culture’ is nothing new, and is not ‘out of control’. It is simply disgracing yourself, and having people react to that fact like you have done something disgraceful. ‘Cancelled’ is just the word being used because ‘disgrace’ has gotten so damned common it’s lost all power.
Fuck the pearl-clutching. People have a right to say ‘hey, you know what? I don’t think I’m ok with Fat Albert in syndication anymore, because it benefits a sexual predator’. People also have a right to disagree with that position and say ‘no, really, it’s a good show, it has a positive message, and fucking hell, can’t we at least salvage something of the good work done by a terrible human being?’
People can demand Sternberg resign if that’s their honest, visceral reaction here. He fucked up. He didn’t do his job. There’s legit grounds for possible dismissal. Other people can say ‘you are totally over-reacting to that, it’s not like he’s got a consistent history of fucking up his job in amazingly high-profile ways that damage the publication’.
Have a goddamned dialog, instead of demanding people stop expressing their honest feelings on the matter.
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Yes this is true. This would have made all the difference.
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Yet more politically correct woke cancel culture. I don’t even recognize my batshit racist idiot country anymore. It’s getting to where you can’t be openly stupid anymore without being called stupid. So sad.
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. . . oh my god. You’ve given me a goddamned idea. Back in a few hours.
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