{"id":109941,"date":"2021-01-28T09:59:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T14:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=109941"},"modified":"2021-01-28T10:02:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T15:02:11","slug":"revisionist-history-newsweek-accused-of-editing-past-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=109941","title":{"rendered":"Revisionist History? Newsweek Accused of Editing Past Article"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Several news outlets are reporting that Newsweek has edited its 2015 story about Senator Tom Cotton to align and support recent allegations about his military service claims.<\/p>\n

RT writes:<\/p>\n

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Rewriting history? Newsweek edits 2015 story to align with disputed claim that GOP Sen. Tom Cotton lied about his military record<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Newsweek has been accused of tinkering with its past reporting in order to lend weight to controversial accusations that Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) misrepresented his military service while running for Congress.<\/div>\n
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The outlet ran a piece last week in which it highlighted claims that Cotton had wrongfully described himself as a former US Army Ranger during his first election campaign in 2012. Salon was the first to push the allegation, reporting that Cotton had wrongfully attributed himself to be a part of the elite unit during his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Rather, the Arkansas senator had attended a two-month training course at the Ranger school, earning him the right to wear the Ranger insignia while not actually serving in a Ranger regiment. And thus him describing himself as an Army Ranger is false.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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TheBlaze writes:<\/p>\n

Newsweek edited an article from over 5 years ago just so it could bolster a smear against GOP Sen. Tom Cotton<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In a strange move that perhaps serves as an example of just how far left-leaning media outlets will go to smear conservatives, editors at Newsweek decided to retroactively edit an article the outlet published more than five years ago to bolster an attack against Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton’s military record.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Newsweek jumped in the ruckus with both feet, but it is difficult to tell if they edited the past article before or after they entered the fray.<\/p>\n

This underscores a previous contention I have about news vs. storytelling.\u00a0 Many have crossed the line into shaping a narrative to achieve a desired outcome – i.e. storytelling – vs. just reporting objective facts.\u00a0 Hollywood often goes the other direction and pass off fictional storytelling as fact.\u00a0 This shifts the burden on the consumer to sort out what is true and what isn’t.<\/p>\n

What factors contribute to this?<\/p>\n

There have been media research studies where it has been proven that people take shortcuts with the news information that they consume.\u00a0 Everyone is so busy with their daily lives, they often don’t have time to do a deep dive, so instead exercise trust.\u00a0 They evaluate a news source over a period of time and eventually trust what they have to say and rely on its reporting as fact.<\/p>\n

Some would say this is laziness, but it’s really a survival necessity since we cannot delve into each and every issue with the limited time available in our lives.<\/p>\n

However, this trust can be exploited… and often has been.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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