We now know that the two Tulsa World reporters behind the blockbuster story about the allegedly falsified training records in the Eric Harris shooting left to join a soon-to-be-launched local news website. So what’s the status of their story? In a follow up interview, the Executive Editor of the Tulsa World tells us that while she has no reason to doubt the sources behind she says, “their sources are not sources to anyone else in my newsroom right now. So I’m trying to establish contact with those sources and make sure that they are standing by that.”
Catherine Thompson has our report.
The US is in a minor diplomatic row with Poland of all countries. And it’s over the Holocaust. Last week FBI Director James Comey made a statement that appeared to suggest the Poles (and Hugary for that matter) were responsible for the horrors of the Holocaust on something like a par with Germany. The Poles are outraged and demanding apologies. And the US Ambassador to Poland has now apologized on the United States’ behalf.
A short while ago we reported that the two reporters who broke the story of the allegedly falsified records of that volunteer sheriff’s deputy had abruptly resigned from The Tulsa World. What’s more, the Executive Editor of the paper declined to say that the paper was standing behind the blockbuster story. Now we’ve heard from the reporters in question that they left to work at a new local news website and that their departure had nothing to do with that story. We’ve updated our story and you read the update here.
Still leaves a pretty big mystery about why the paper won’t say it still stands behind the story.
The two reporters who reported on the allegedly falsified training records of Robert Bates, the volunteer Sheriff’s deputy who accidentally shot and killed Eric Harris, have now resigned.
The paper’s executive editor tells us it’s not related to the story. But when we asked whether the paper stands by the reporting, she said, “Thats all I’d like to say.”
Gregor Macdonald, the writer behind our TPM Prime series The Renewables, will be in The Hive(sub req) tomorrow at 2 p.m. EST to chat about his series and all things energy. He’s an independent journalist covering the energy sector who has written for The Economist Intelligence Unit, The Financial Times of London, The Harvard Business Review, The Oil Drum, The Petroleum Economist, etc.
About a month ago, TPM published the first of Gregor’s 5-part series on the rapid rise of renewables in the global energy market. We’ve since published part two, and part three will be published tomorrow (Tuesday). The pieces deal with the changing energy mix in the US as solar and wind dominate marginal additions to the powergrid, and aging fossil-fuel power retires. Check it out and drop in your questions for Gregor about renewable energy, the economics and policy surrounding it, etc. at or before 2 p.m. EST.
Hard to forget the 90s when the “liberal” New York Times got suckered into or went whole hog on every bogus Clinton scandal like Whitewater that got churned out of the rightwing spin machine. Well, now the Times has partnered in an “exclusive arrangement” with a conservative opposition researcher to collaborate on pieces about Hillary?
Please tell me there’s a good explanation for this.
ICYMI: Huckabee: Don’t enlist in the military until we have a more godly president.
From our on-going series, TPM Reader JC is “fine” with Hillary …
So a little background about me: I’m a 24 year old daughter of Haitian immigrants, born in Rhode Island and raised in Florida. I’m not religious. I have a full-time job with great benefits, health insurance, a decent education from UF that helped me get a job I love in the field I studied. Life is pretty decent. Or at least a bit better than some other semi-recent college graduates that I know or read about. (Also, I’d be interested in knowing the demographic deets of other TPM readers, they seem like a surprisingly diverse bunch…possible future article?)
New Poll: Christie approval rating “lowest ever,” down to 38%.
Can we finally agree that even if he thinks he’s running, Chris Christie is, shall we say, objectively not running for President. Blue state governors with terrible approval ratings with various scandals surrounding them simply are not credible presidential contenders in a GOP primary.
This morning we have an example of one of the more curious oddities and inanities of the New York media ecosystem. The New York Post is reporting – or one of its premier columnists is – that Mayor Bill de Blasio is plotting to enter the 2016 presidential race as the left alternative to Hillary Clinton. This is almost certainly intentionally made up nonsense for the purpose of lampooning de Blasio and generating adverse stories for Clinton as well.