The New York Times posted eight revisions over a 23-hour period to its Saturday and then-Sunday story about U.S. President Donald Trump’s first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In the process, the paper’s headline went from an original “Russians Call Trump Meeting Putin a Win, but Doubt Concrete Gains,” to a more certain “Russians Call Trump Meeting Putin a Win,” to a celebratory “Russia Crows Over Putin’s Trump Meeting.”
Additionally, as obsessed as the press has been with Russia and Putin supposedly influencing the 2016 presidential election and Trump’s campaign and administration, one would think that the folks at the Times would recognize when Vladimir Putin is not in a photo. Nope. On Saturday, in a tweet about “body language,” the Timesused a photo it claimed showed Trump and Putin shaking hands. The problem is that it really showed Trump with Polish President Andrzej Duda. – READ MORE
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