https://sharylattkisson.com/2022/01/media-mistakes-in-the-biden-era-the-definitive-list/
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Wed. Jan. 19, 2022
NPR's Nina Totenberg reported that Supreme Court Justice John Roberts had instructed all Justices to mask, (despite being fully vaccinated and boosted), and that Neil Gorsuch refused. "His continued refusal since then has also meant that Sotomayor has not attended the justices' weekly conference in person, joining instead by telephone," reported Totenberg. ..
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January 2022
The fact checker for the Washington Post, Glenn Kessler, gave Sen. Tom Cotton a rating indicating Cotton wasn't telling the truth in March of 2021 when Cotton accurately tweeted that under the Biden administration's Covid relief initiative, murderers like convicted Islamic extremist terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from the Boston Marathon bombings would receive a Covid stimulus check.
It turns out Cotton was spot on; it was the fact checker Kessler who was mistaken. A local news reporter recently turned up information that, just as Cotton had predicted, Tsarnaev received a Covid stimulus check in prison.
The Washington Post didn't discover and revisit its error on its own: Cotton's representative reportedly asked the newspaper to correct its false information. Still, the Post couldn't bear to honestly state that its fact check was embarrassingly wrong. Instead, Kessler reduced his "Pinocchio" rating of Cotton's accurate statement from two Pinocchio's to one, still claiming that Cotton's prediction "lacks some context."
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Fri. Jan. 7, 2022
The Huffington Post published a headline to an obituary mistakenly saying that Sidney Potier was the first black actor to win an Academy Award. Actually, that distinction went to Hattie McDaniel 24 years earlier. McDaniel was the first black actor to win an Academy in Award in 1940 for her supporting role in "Gone With The Wind."
The Huffington Post later fixed the headline but did not note it had made a mistake or a correction.
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Thurs. Dec. 2, 2021
Philip Bump of The Washington Post repeats Media Matters false claim, stating that the forensically-proven government intrusion of Sharyl Attkisson's CBS computers never happened.
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Fri. Nov. 19, 2021
Countless media outlets defamed and otherwise published false information about Kyle Rittenhouse, who was found not guilty of all charges by a jury.
After the verdict, The Independent published an article that falsely claimed Rittenhouse "shot three black men."
None of the people who were shot were black; they were all white.
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