#JOURNALISM: Clay Travis: Washington Post Acknowledges They Misquoted Me, Buries Correction.
It’s important to note what is going on here.
1. The Washington Post published a dishonest and factually incorrect article about me.
2. When I published the actual transcript of their questions and my responses to those questions the paper changed an inaccurate quote and made a notation at the bottom of an online article that almost no one would see.
3. No one at the paper reached out to acknowledge they’d misquoted me or to apologize for their error.
4. These mistakes were made even though I told the paper I was recording our interview and would publish the transcript if their article took my quotes out of context or incorrectly quoted me.
5. The only reason any of you even know this error occurred — or about how dishonest and untrue the piece they wrote was — is because I own my own media company and can demonstrate all the dishonesty in their work by publishing a transcript and response on this site.
Put simply, the paper, which allegedly prides itself on journalistic accuracy, mischaracterized and misconstrued everything I said to them and even though they only used 94 words from me, they couldn’t even correctly quote what I said and publish it in their article.
What’s more, when they were caught publishing factually incorrect information, they made a quiet alteration and refused to even notify the person they wrote about, me, that they’d corrected the error.
Think of the press as a psychological warfare operation against normal Americans and you won’t go far wrong.
