Breitbart Issues Correction After Publishing False Story About Conservative Rival
Breitbart wrote a frontpage story Monday accusing the founder of fellow conservative website The Washington Free Beacon of making comments that were actually made by someone else entirely.
‘Free Beacon’ Founder: Trump is the Politics of ‘Fear, Paranoia, Nativism’ read the original Breitbart headline. The piece (which once again lacks a byline) blurbed a BBC op-ed by Michael Goldfarb, in which Goldfarb accused Donald Trump of using fear and paranoia to gain voters. On a website whose authors and audience skew pro-Trump, pointing out the comments was clearly not intended to be laudatory.
But if they had scrolled to the bottom, Breitbart would have realized the op-ed was written by a completely different Michael Goldfarb. This Michael Goldfarb is a former NPR broadcaster and “the author of Emancipation: How Liberating Europe’s Jews from the Ghetto led to Revolution and Renaissance.” The Free Beacon’s Goldfarb is not.
On Twitter, Free Beacon editor and co-founder Matt Continetti called out Breitbart and asked for a retraction.
"Two hours after Continetti pointed out the mistake, Brietbart appended a correction: “A previous version of this story misidentified the subject of the article, Michael Goldfarb, as the founder of the Washington Free Beacon. The Free Beacon was founded by a different Michael Goldfarb. Breitbart News regrets the error.”
If this all sounds familiar, it’s because this exact scenario has played out before. Breitbart issued a retraction in 2014 after they wrote a story trashing Obama Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch for her connection to the Whitewater scandal, not realizing it was a different Loretta Lynch who represented the Clintons."
Breitbart Issues Correction After Publishing False Story About Conservative Rival | Mediaite
Nope. Looks like they issue corrections and retractions...
This should now be just fine with you..Right?
Consistency check...Check.
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