Matt Margolis notes [1]:
Soon after the story was published, Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist, who had an advanced copy of the book, noted the article failed to mention a critical detail that, quite literally, undermined the entire accusation.”The book notes, quietly, that the woman Max Stier named as having been supposedly victimized by Kavanaugh and friends denies any memory of the alleged event,” she tweeted [2]. John McCormack of National Review called the omission of this fact from the article [3] “one of the worst cases of journalistic malpractice in recent memory.”
It wasn’t until late Sunday evening that the New York Times, updated the article to include this crucial piece of information. Here is the relevant paragraph, with the update in bold:
A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student. Mr. Stier, who runs a nonprofit organization in Washington, notified senators and the F.B.I. about this account, but the F.B.I. did not investigate and Mr. Stier has declined to discuss it publicly. We corroborated the story with two officials who have communicated with Mr. Stier; the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say she does not recall the episode.
An Editors’ Note was also added at the bottom:
Editors’ Note: Sept. 15, 2019
An earlier version of this article, which was adapted from a forthcoming book, did not include one element of the book’s account regarding an assertion by a Yale classmate that friends of Brett Kavanaugh pushed his penis into the hand of a female student at a drunken dorm party. The book reports that the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident. That information has been added to the article.
Despite the update, the damage has been done.
Yeah.
To coin a phrase, this is my shocked face.
I mean, look, damage was always the intent, not reporting. Jean McCormick’s statement that
“one of the worst cases of journalistic malpractice in recent memory.”
… is of course true, but his sying that takes on monumental connotations when one considers even a small portion of what Sulzberger’s minions have been pushing for the last three years now.
Additionally, we’ve already seen the extent the left will go to to protect their “right” to kill children that aren’t convenient. [4] This is simply more of the same.
The cause of freedom will be best served by pushing that entire propaganda factory into the swamp next to LaGuardia.