A story that theoretically could’ve triggered armed conflict between NATO and Russia required less than ten minutes, one anonymous source, and just over a dozen Slack messages for the wire service to publish.
TLDR: A reporter got a tip from a source that Russia fired into Poland. The source had been vetted in the past, but not for this story specifically. The reporter asked what to do. A senior editor decided to publish without second checking the source. When this blew up in AP’s face, they fired the OG reporter, not the senior reporter who actually published it.
TLDR of TLDR: AP fires reporter to protect senior editor.
"I can't imagine a US intelligence official would be wrong on this."
That alone deserves firing.
And the senior reporter, and the intelligence official, and everyone who even touched this story. They knew damn well what they were doing - trying to start WWIII.
Yeah I mean what the actual fuck are they teaching in Journalism school? An investigative reporter should start with the baseline assumption that anyone at all with any vested interest in the story they are investigating is in some way hiding the truth either by lying or indirectly because they themselves are being lied to or are mistaken.
The wording is even worse. You don't think the source could be wrong? Who the fuck is your source on this? God? Anyone can be wrong for christ's sake. That's why people check stuff.
TLDR: A reporter got a tip from a source that Russia fired into Poland. The source had been vetted in the past, but not for this story specifically. The reporter asked what to do. A senior editor decided to publish without second checking the source. When this blew up in AP’s face, they fired the OG reporter, not the senior reporter who actually published it.
TLDR of TLDR: AP fires reporter to protect senior editor.
"I can't imagine a US intelligence official would be wrong on this."
That alone deserves firing.
And the senior reporter, and the intelligence official, and everyone who even touched this story. They knew damn well what they were doing - trying to start WWIII.
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also they're only in trouble because US inteligence doesn't want a nuclear war with Russia
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yeah me too. I was increadibly pleasantly surprised
Some of them don't. Others like the source in this story have a crate of bottle caps they've been collecting since fallout 3 was released.
are we sure he had a real source
Yeah I mean what the actual fuck are they teaching in Journalism school? An investigative reporter should start with the baseline assumption that anyone at all with any vested interest in the story they are investigating is in some way hiding the truth either by lying or indirectly because they themselves are being lied to or are mistaken.
The wording is even worse. You don't think the source could be wrong? Who the fuck is your source on this? God? Anyone can be wrong for christ's sake. That's why people check stuff.
A fucking INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
I know liberals out plenty of faith in their liberal institutions but come on