NJ Admits Error in Judgment
NJ has admitted an error it made last week in a story about a President Obama proposal to shut down two national labs. The proposal shuts down parts of the two labs. The publication has a policy in place that a note must accompany all major corrections. That didn’t happen. The story simply changed. After FishbowlDC approached the publication, they attached a formal correction to the story and offered a quote from Editor-in-Chief Ron Fournier.
“National Journal has an unequivocal policy of correcting mistakes immediately and transparently on all platforms that carry the error, and that includes informing our readers that a correction has been made,” Fournier said through a spokeswoman.
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