10-11-2018, 04:13 PM
USA Today issued a response to complaints about the falsehoods in the Op-ed not long after it was released. The Editor explained that the normal fact-check was performed prior to publication and they give a lot of leeway for opinions.
Diversity of opinions is great, political and otherwise. That's not a problem. The problem is that much of the piece was easily proven to be factually false.
Then, a few hours later, USA Today released an article fact-checking its own Op-ed. Their fact-check calls out several false and misleading claims made by President Trump (the USA Today fact-check piece is the third reference link in my post above).
USA Today has also updated the original Op-ed with hyper links to other fact-check sources.
Maybe the original release was all about the money associated with selling papers and attracting site hits, rather than journalistic integrity.
Now, it looks to me like USA Today is trying to have it both ways. But, not everybody who read the original piece will see the fact-check.
Diversity of opinions is great, political and otherwise. That's not a problem. The problem is that much of the piece was easily proven to be factually false.
Then, a few hours later, USA Today released an article fact-checking its own Op-ed. Their fact-check calls out several false and misleading claims made by President Trump (the USA Today fact-check piece is the third reference link in my post above).
USA Today has also updated the original Op-ed with hyper links to other fact-check sources.
Maybe the original release was all about the money associated with selling papers and attracting site hits, rather than journalistic integrity.
Now, it looks to me like USA Today is trying to have it both ways. But, not everybody who read the original piece will see the fact-check.