USA Today Mysteriously Yanks Story
At approximately 6 p.m. on Thursday USA Today ran a story about Delta hooking up with Saudi Arabian Airlines. The headline: “U.S. Jews not able to fly on Delta flights to Saudi Arabia.” The lede expanded that to say that Jews, Israelis and people of non-Islamic faith would not be able to fly Delta to Saudi Arabia. The story quickly got picked up by Drudge and, as in known to happen when a story gets Drudged, readership rocketed to the top of their site.
30 to 40 minutes later, USA Today pulled the story.
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