Instead of An Apology, Media Matters Posts “Correction” After False Smear of Brit Hume
A July 24, 2006, post by Media Matters made the following false claim (from screen cap):
As the video/audio of the broadcast clearly reveals, Hume articulated no such thing. What’s astonishing is that MMatters accompanied the video/audio of the segment with their post!
So did MMatters do the honorable thing and apologize to Mr. Hume for their baseless smear? No. Instead, they issued a "correction" that stated, "[W]e believe that we erred in stating unambiguously that Hume used the pronoun ‘we,’ and we regret the error." No apology to Mr. Hume accompanies the "correction."
Has MMatters’ search for "conservative misinformation" reached a new level of desperation such that editorial standards have been sadly degraded (even mitigated more than they are now)? Who allowed this post to be published? Why was it published? The claim in the post was so blatantly untrue that it’s almost bizarre that it was composed.
