Several outlets that reported last week that the FBI had warned Rudy Giuliani that he was a target of Russia’s disinformation campaign against President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden have walked back their reports.
Rudy Rudy Rudy… we hardly knew ye.
Seriously now… a decent journalist would try to get accurate information and when it goes wrong they correct the story.\ and announce the correction. That’s not to say OAN is off the hook however.
Journalism outlets are always in a break-neck race to publish first. They should know that after four years of being on the receiving end of those howls about “fake news” -anything that substantiates that claim works against their mission in the long term. Might I suggest that instead of “first with news” the new mantra should be “news that’s verified?”