These are REPORTERS we are talking about! They have INTEGRITY!
< /sarc>
Posted on 02/02/2010 11:31:48 PM PST by Blonde
The lead story at DrudgeReport.com as of 11:30 a.m. this morning was "**REUTERS: Backdoor taxes to hit middle class." But Reuters withdrew the article last night. Drudge noted the change and wrote: "**REUTERS pulls tax story..." then added another link to the top left margin: "Largest-ever federal payroll to hit 2.15 million employees..."
So what happened?
According to a Reuters rep, the was withdrawn "due to significant errors of fact."
"The story was wrong on multiple points and should not have gone out," she emailed us. A formal withdrawal will issued will address specific points that were incorrect later today.
UPDATE: A White House offical told Talking Points Memo that administration aides appealed to Reuters to take it down.
The original link lead clickers to an article posted on Monday, Feb. 1 at 4:09 p.m. which reads, in part:
While the administration is focusing its proposal on eliminating tax breaks for individuals who earn $250,000 a year or more, middle-class families will face a slew of these backdoor increases.
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Millions of middle-class households already may be facing higher taxes in 2010 because Congress has failed to extend tax breaks that expired on January 1, most notably a "patch" that limited the impact of the alternative minimum tax. The AMT, initially designed to prevent the very rich from avoiding income taxes, was never indexed for inflation. Now the tax is affecting millions of middle-income households, but lawmakers have been reluctant to repeal it because it has become a key source of revenue.
At 8:07 p.m. last night, Reuters posted another article: "The story Backdoor taxes to hit middle class has been withdrawn. A replacement story will run later in the week."
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
State controlled Reuters.
It used to be that news organization stood by their published reports and never retracted except in the case of clear libel.
Of course they offered space so the objecting party could present their side — which is what Reuters should have done in this case.
Sorry excuse for a “news” organization.
So who is the new Reichminister of Propaganda?
These are REPORTERS we are talking about! They have INTEGRITY!
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Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs is rewarding himself with a 100 million dollar bonus for 2009.
Both companies were bailed out in late 2008 by the tax payer via the TARP fund and other methods like the AIG bailout backdoor where Goldman Sachs was paid 100 % on the dollar by the fed for billions in toxic waste mortgage related investments.
Wonder how much of that bonus money goes to taxes and how much is protected via creative accounting and shelters?
Yep you sure do...
Right up to the point your editor gets a call from the White House and the story gets pulled!
And let me say I am absolutely sure the request was above board and no threats were made on the part of the White House, real OR implied!
Yes, I believe that...
I really do...
No, seriesly, I have a hugh belief that everything was above board just like it is over at Green Jobs/Medical Equipment Central NBC...
No pressure whatsoever...
Yep, I believe it...
(really, I do...)
CENSORSHIP! And the MSM remains silent. Scary times.
“According to a Reuters rep, the was withdrawn “due to significant errors of fact.”
“The story was wrong on multiple points and should not have gone out,” she emailed us. A formal withdrawal will issued will address specific points that were incorrect later today”
Funny, that never stopped the media before.
Am I crazy in thinking that it is inappropriate for the White House to be calling news organizations and asking them to take down stories, unless they are dealing with security issues?
What would have the MSM done if Bush had asked?
SO will the WH say exactly what is “wrong” with the story? Will Reuters?
Just an FYI...this is from a Hotair regarding issues with original tax story.
AEI
Fact-checking the Reuters “backdoor taxes” story
http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=70244
And link to underlying Hotair article
http://blog.american.com/?p=10105
Basically it says certain of the Bush tax cuts are made permanent. I have no idea. But I do know that no matter what happens with tax rates, the level of spending is out of control.
...hence my tagline.
Wow... “appealed to” sounds so... voluntary.
When the Executive branch has the ability to control the Press it is no longer free speech. Your ability to publish a story does little good when the Government uses its influence to tell the people that your story is wrong that your news source is fake and that other Honorable news agencies like the ones they have direct control over are the honest agents. My point is if the media is going to take Orders from Obama on what to and not to print then the media have abused the first ammendment and therfore it is effectively dead.
not unlike Hitler and the rise of Nazi Germany, 50 years from now in a case study some may ask why this country with all its FREEDOM didn’t see it coming.
CENSORED
Welcome to America 2.0, life under Obamunism.
First, I wonder what the WH threatened Reuter’s with in order to get them to pull the whole article.
Secondly, the advisory I’m seeing at Yahoo! says the following:
ADVISORY:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/100202/us/usreport_us_budget_backdoortaxes_advisory
The Feb 1 story headlined “Backdoor taxes to hit middle class” is wrong and has been withdrawn. The story said lower-income families will pay more under tax provisions scheduled to expire Dec 31. The Obama administration’s budget calls for the extension of those tax provisions for households earning less than $250,000. There will be no substitute story.
This is different than the advisory printed in this article. The thing is, the reference to the expiring tax cuts was not the only thing in the article.
Third, the article is still up all over the internet. All the White House has done is call more attention to the subject itself, and has also exposed itself as screwing with the media...
Run a headline story on all networks reporting that the Bush administration was trying to limit the press in an effort to save his falling approval numbers.
President LBJ held a letter to blackmail the Houston Chronicle into only providing positive press coverage (in exchange for permitting a bank merger to go through).
One of the details that came out in the 1990s release of LBJ's White House tapes.
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