On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 7:21 PM Melissa P <takingupspace...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Very quick mention at the top of the show where he said that the story's > been retracted, but also said that the retraction doesn't mean that it's > inaccurate. > > I doubt his job's in jeopardy. Nor should it be. > He failed in his role as a journalist. If his job isn’t in jeopardy, I don’t ever again want to hear anybody claim MSNBC is a news network. The reason I have such a head full of steam about this is Trump will use this. It’s a huge victory for him when progressives make easily preventable mistakes. There was no pressing need for O’Donnell to air the story without first checking the facts. No excuse for getting it wrong. Journalists were already being targeted by the Trump cult... this just further motivates them. > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 10:16 PM Steve Timko <steveti...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I didn't watch it, but Bill Carter said it was a routine correction. >> https://twitter.com/wjcarter/status/1166894818150289408 >> More than FOX News does, sure, but we have to have higher standards than >> that. >> We'll see if O'Dennell gets a FOX News style vacation. Maybe he doesn't >> have to be fired, but this deserves at least a serious butt kicking. Firing >> is in the realm of possibility. We don't know what happened behind the >> scenes. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 5:50 PM Kevin M. <drunkbastar...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> CNN has a story on the story. >>> >>> >>> https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/28/media/msnbc-lawrence-odonnell-deutsche-bank/index.html >>> >>> If Dan Rather got fired for the Bush Jr story blunder, and Brian >>> Williams got fired for his misremembering events, O’Donnell has to go. End >>> of story. He acknowledged airing a story without going through proper >>> fact-checking. He’s gone. I don’t say that maliciously... just last night I >>> listened to a nice interview with him on the West Wing Weekly podcast... I >>> like the guy. But he majorly screwed the pooch. There’s no walking it back. >>> There can’t be. >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 4:51 PM Kevin M. <drunkbastar...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Lawrence ran a story that hadn’t been vetted by NBC News. The single >>>> source turned out not to have seen what he claimed. >>>> >>>> https://twitter.com/lawrence/status/1166529030352510976?s=21 >>>> >>>> Today, the mea culpa. >>>> >>>> https://twitter.com/lawrence/status/1166800943272353792?s=21 >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Kevin M. (RPCV) >>>> >>> -- >>> Kevin M. (RPCV) >>> >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CA%2B_fQPww-63eJCCTp02O4N96e5QzxvnZkCDYsrpDSKLvaOqKoA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CA%2B_fQPww-63eJCCTp02O4N96e5QzxvnZkCDYsrpDSKLvaOqKoA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4Cx1OsNiOFScPgx7UMqDrSHrxTsMPauwtW%2BBiO9N_BpaQ%40mail.gmail.com.
