Amid a big day of Supreme Court rulings on trans student athletes and birthright citizenship yesterday, June 30, a fascinating side story emerged. National Public Radio ran a story by their legendary Supreme Court reporter, Nina Totenberg, that Justice Samuel Alito had resigned from the Court. What’s interesting is that Alito did not resign. Totenberg submitted a story about a resignation that didn’t happen – pre-written with a bow – then NPR editors ran it without corroboration or confirmation.
Later in the day, the reporter and her editor appeared on the “All Things Considered” show, revealing nothing and increasing speculation about what drove the false reporting. Perhaps what happened is not political or ideologically driven – after all, mistakes happen frequently enough, even major ones. If this were a reporter with a neutral track record, the story wouldn’t be much of a story. But NPR and Totenberg have been criticized by conservatives as left-wing activists rather than journalists.
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