Posts Tagged ‘Paul Farhi’

O’Keefe: You’re Going to Retract. Farhi: Never! Washington Post: Here, Have a Retraction

Saturday, July 8th, 2017

Such a tiny little skirmish victory in the war against fake news, but since it fits into CNN Self-Immolation week, here’s James O’Keefe rubbing Paul Farhi’s nose in the fact that, yes, Farhi screwed up in his coverage of one of Project Veritas’ CNN videos, and the mistake was so obvious that yes, indeed, the Washington Post had to issue a retraction, just as O’Keefe said it would.

The question, of course, is why Farhi’s research was slipshod as to make an obviously erroneous assertion about such a short video, and why he was so stubborn and stiff-necked that he refused to offer a retraction when he was obviously in error…