NPR Retracts Article Claiming Justice Alito Is Retiring
NPR published and subsequently retracted an article stating that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring, attributing the error to a misunderstanding.
NPR published an article stating that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. The article was written by NPR Supreme Court reporter Nina Totenberg. Justice Alito and the Supreme Court Public Information Office had not announced his retirement.
NPR retracted the article and issued an apology and correction, attributing the error to a misunderstanding. NPR Editor-in-Chief Tommy Evans issued a statement regretting the error. According to the New York Times, NPR broadcast an on-air correction and removed the story from its website.
A Supreme Court spokesman called NPR’s article 'inaccurate,' according to the New York Times.
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