The New York Times was told it had the story wrong when the newspaper tried to tarnish United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, but went ahead anyway with a piece that wrongly linked Haley to $52,701 being spent on drapes for the ambassador’s New York City residence.
Even the initial Times story noted that the decision to move the U.N. ambassador’s residence was made in 2016 and that the purchase was approved by the Obama administration.
Haley, appearing Thursday night on “The Story” with Martha MacCallum, said there was no question that the Times knew the facts, according to a video posted on YouTube.
Haley said fighting fake news is a daily battle.
“Unfortunately if you’re in public service, this is the life we live every day. It’s just a matter of this one got through. You know we are stopping stories every day that aren’t truthful, or don’t have the facts,” she said.
She said the truth was known before the story was printed.
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But the damage was done, she said.
“All last week every day wherever I went, people were asking me about my court curtains and the damage is done once and story is out. I appreciate the retraction but that story follows you everywhere you go. That’s a tough part about public lifestyle,” she said.
The report engendered a Twitter war.
The hypocrisy is stunning- and stunningly consistent- across the entire Trump Administration.
“An earlier version of this article and headline created an unfair impression about who was responsible for the purchase in question. While Nikki R. Haley is the current ambassador to the United Nations, the decision on leasing the ambassador’s residence and purchasing the curtains was made during the Obama administration, according to current and former officials. The article should not have focused on Ms. Haley, nor should a picture of her have been used. The article and headline have now been edited to reflect those concerns, and the picture has been removed,” it wrote in a note preceding the story.
However, that did not satisfy the New York Post, which said that the apology deserved as much ballyhoo as the initial story.
“All that’s still missing is an apology at least as public as the original smear,” the Post wrote in an editorial.
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