Sigh.
When a paper, television station or news service admits to an error, that's a GOOD thing. It means that they make an effort to report the news in an even-handed manner.
Can you see FoxNews saying "well, looks like we were wrong to do all that hand-waving and finger-pointing during the early stages of that debacle we call the Iraq war. Those talking points we got from the White House turned out to be wrong, and we apologize."
It would be a good sign for the organization if they did--but that will never happen. Real media outlets think carefully about what they will publish and what they have published, and try to do so in a way that's fair. Fake news organizations make all of those decisions in ways that are blindly ideological.
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