MMA Tabulates 'Muffin-gate' Media Corrections

Rob Savillo at Media Matters for America has a great rundown today of how the media handled the October 28 debunking of previous claims that the Department of Justice had footed a$16-per-muffin bill for a 2009 conference.

The good news, for SoCal media watchers, is that the LA Times ran not just a Sunday October 30 item about the retraction of the DOJ Inspector General allegation, but also had another in-between item about host hotel chain Hilton disputing the bakery brouhaha.

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