{"id":9126,"date":"2019-11-20T06:50:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T06:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=9126"},"modified":"2019-11-20T06:50:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T06:50:51","slug":"journalism-basically-every-fact-in-the-story-was-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2019\/11\/20\/journalism-basically-every-fact-in-the-story-was-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalism: Basically, every fact in the story was wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

The media ran a big story blaming the Trump Administration’s immigration policies for the US having 100,000 children in detention.<\/p>\n

There were a few problems with the story.<\/em><\/p>\n

On Monday, Manfred Nowak, who leads a U.N. Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty that was published this week, told reporters: \u201cWe have more than \u2014 still more than \u2014 100,000 children in migration-related detention in the United States of America.” The Associated Press and other major news organizations reported that figure.<\/p>\n

But on Tuesday, he told The AP that figure was drawn from a U.N. refugee agency report citing data from 2015<\/span><\/strong>, the latest figure his team could find. That was before U.S. President Donald Trump, whose policies on migration have drawn criticism, was elected.<\/p>\n

Nowak also said the figure of over 100,000 referred to the cumulative number of migrant children held in detention at any point during that year, whether \u201cfor two days or eight months or the whole year,\u201d not all simultaneously.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source: UN expert corrects claim on kids in US migration detention – SFChronicle.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Thus, the 100,000 figure referred to “at any point during that year” (even if for less than a day), the year was incorrect, and blamed the wrong presidential administration.
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AFP and Reuters<\/a> have withdrawn the report, apparently finding it was so wrong as to be not correctable. The original report included paragraphs blaming the Trump administration – but he did not take office until January 2017.<\/p>\n

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Other than most facts in the story were wrong, it was a fine news report. Not.

Both the AFP and Reuters have withdrawn\/retracted the story claiming 100,000 children were in immigration detention due to Trump Administration policies because the data, which didn’t mean what they thought it meant, was from 2015, during a different president’s administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-media-propaganda","category-fake-news","category-fictional-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}