Correction Requests: E! Online, AOL’s PopEater, NY Daily News, Fishbowl LA
by Retracto, the Correction AlpacaAs my Executive Assistant often points out to me, when a story lands on your desk that appears too good to be true, it usually is. And what could be more “too good to be true” to the entertainment media than another opportunity to smear Sarah Palin? Case in point, E! Online’s article of March 3rd, “Sarah Palin and Grabby Entourage ‘Like Locusts’ at Oscar Gift Suite” by Ted Casablanca and Whitney English. The background of the article is that Palin attended a pre-Oscars charity event put on by The Silver Spoon and the Red Cross to support disaster relief efforts in Haiti. E! chose not to properly vet the story and instead unleashed a mocking screed against Sarah Palin loaded with defamatory assertions that require immediate corrections.
The Silver Spoon responded to the misinformation spread by this article and others like it with detailed retraction requests. Below are statements from E! Online’s article juxtaposed with text from the press release from The Silver Spoon:
E! Online:
We’re told Palin was quite the prima donna and that she insisted the suite be opened two hours early so she could come when no looky-loos would be around.
Silver Spoon:
The governor arrived with a small group about 15 minutes prior to our store’s official opening; and upon arrival, she and her entire group gave generous donations to the cause. We offered to open early to accommodate her schedule; she did not ask us to open early. (more…)
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