The most damning element of Woodruff's statement, that Trump urged Netanyahu to reject the ceasefire because it would help Harris in the 2024 presidential campaign -- never happened at all in either report, not even by wink, hint, or suggestion, not in the corrected or uncorrected versions. Nothing. Zilch. Zero. Nada.
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"How does fake news get out there?
"Well, based on this latest event, it comes not from Russian bots and fringe websites that the censorship lobby keeps howling about, but from the mainstream media itself, allowing its political biases to run wild at the expense of the facts.
"According to the New York Post:
A PBS senior correspondent apologized Wednesday after falsely telling her audience that former President Donald Trump tried to talk Israel out of a cease-fire amid its ongoing war in Gaza.
Judy Woodruff passed off blame for the blunder by “clarifying” that she based the flimsy scoop on outside reporting she had read before broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago on Monday.
“The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the prime minister of Israel, urging him not to cut a deal right now, because it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign,” Woodruff told a PBS roundtable.
"Her apology is here:
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— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 21, 2024
PBS’ Judy Woodruff has issued a clarification and an apology for her remarks in this clip which went viral.
“I want to clarify my remarks on the PBS News special on Monday night about the ongoing cease fire talks in the Middle East.
As I said, this was not based on my… pic.twitter.com/4nIhczmpj5
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