AP Fires Reporter Who Risked Triggering WWIII With Polish Missile Misinformation
- AP Fires Reporter Who Risked Triggering WWIII With Polish Missile Misinformation
by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
Five days after the Associated Press cited an anonymous ‘senior US intelligence official’ in a story that claimed a Russian missile killed two Polish civilians, one of the two reporters behind the story was fired.
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Reporters James LaPorta (fired) and John Leichester (not fired) share the byline on the now-retracted report, which sparked an entire news cycle that included talk of invoking ‘Article 5‘ – the mutual defense agreement between NATO members – and which would have obligated other members to engage in collective defense, aka WWIII.
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As the day went on, President Biden popped out of a NATO / G7 briefing, and mumbled that “it’s unlikely” the projectile was fired from Russia. NATO then chimed in, saying it was more likely that the missile was fired by Ukrainian forces in self-defense (or was it?).
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AP later retracted the story, and issued the following correction which pinned blame on the anonymous intelligence official;
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