So, it was apparently newsworthy only if it made President Trump look like he was violating international law… but once it was deemed that Obama was guilty of it, the story was pulled?
Source: Georgette
The left-wing push to label President Trump as an unfeeling monster and law breaker continues despite the complete lack of factual evidence. This was seen, yet again, yesterday, when so-called ‘trusted’ news sites ran a story generated by a left-wing lawyer at the United Nations.
The story claimed that the United States (under President Trump, of course) was violating international law by detaining more than 100,000 migrant child invaders.
However, that was completely false.
The numbers were actually taken from 2015… when Obama was president.
So, what did these ‘news’ outlets do? They immediately deleted the story, refusing to show the former administration in a bad light.
Apparently, truth matters little compared to propaganda being used to shape public opinion…
Multiple outlets deleted entire stories Tuesday after falsely reporting the number of children in migrant-related U.S. custody.
Outlets including Reuters, Agence France-Presse (AFP), NPR and Aljazeera jumped on a report from the United Nations, writing Monday that the country has the world’s highest rate of detained children. The outlets reported that there are currently more than 100,000 children in immigration-related custody, which violates international law.
A day later, Reuters and AFP deleted their stories after the U.N. clarified the numbers were from 2015, when former President Barack Obama was in office. AFP did not immediately respond to a request for comment on why it no longer felt the numbers were newsworthy after being informed they were from 2015.
“Reuters decided to withdraw its story after the United Nations issued a statement on November 19 saying the number of children in detention was not current but was for the year 2015,” a Reuters spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The page where the article was featured has a retraction on Reuters. The outlet declined to comment on why the story was no longer deemed newsworthy.
“A Nov. 18 story headlined ‘U.S. has world’s highest rate of children in detention -U.N. study’ is withdrawn. The United Nations issued a statement on Nov. 19 saying the number was not current but was for the year 2015. No replacement story will be issued,” it reads.
AFP also retracted its entire story, tweeting Tuesday that the author of the report clarified the numbers.
AFP is withdrawing this story.
The author of the report has clarified that his figures do not represent the number of children currently in migration-related US detention, but the total number of children in migration-related US detention in 2015.
We will delete the story. https://t.co/p30UjEWl7u
— AFP news agency (@AFP) November 19, 2019
NPR retracted its entire story at 6:53 p.m. Eastern time, issuing a notice that it would be posting another story with “more complete information.”
“We have temporarily withdrawn this story because the study’s author has acknowledged a significant error in the data. We will post a revised article with more complete information as soon as possible,” NPR’s page reads.
Aljazeera updated its article, which is now headlined “UN expert corrects claims on children in US migration.” The article notes that the data is from the Obama administration, but a large portion of it is still dedicated to scrutinizing illegal immigration under Trump.
“Following the publication of this article, the outside expert quoted corrected a figure he cited claiming that more than 100,000 children were currently being held in migrant detention in the US,” Aljazeera’s correction reads. “On Tuesday, he told news agencies the figure was from 2015, the latest his team could find. This article has been updated under a new headline to reflect his corrected statement.”
NPR and Aljazeera did not immediately responded to a request for comment from the DCNF.
“The expert also says the Trump administration’s family separation policy is ‘absolutely prohibited’ by the Convention on the Rights of the Child,” the article reads, even though the numbers were from the Obama administration.
The report’s author is Manfred Nowak, a human rights lawyer, who appears to have bungled the report as well.
“Nowak said his team estimates that the U.S. is still holding more than 100,000 children in migration-related detention,” the NPR article reads.
The Associated Press also deleted its article, but wrote a substitute story where it highlighted the figure that was incorrectly cited by Nowak.
“But on Tuesday, he [Nowak] told The AP that figure was drawn from a U.N. refugee agency report citing data from 2015, the latest figure his team could find,” the new AP article reads. “That was before U.S. President Donald Trump, whose policies on migration have drawn criticism, was elected.”
But, what can you expect from an outlet that worked hand in glove with the Obama administration against President Trump?
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True to form – the fake news is still lickin’ Obama’s a$$. They don’t realize that Obama took the country to the cleaners and I guess since they are still lickin’ and clickin’ they think he/Dem’s needs to steal more.
The real problem is these a$$holes are working and paid double by foreign countries. Look – they haven’t even reported on the coup or the FISA crimes whereby foreign countries were involved in the over throw called a coup.
Yep, we have their number. Just waitin’ for the facts to come out since they are calling FISA CRIME a “walk in the park.” Time will tell.
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