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WSJ allowed Alito to lie and pre-but ProPublica's story [1]

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Date: 2023-06-25  

ProPublica has published a story where they provide details on how the WSJ Op-Ed page allowed Alito to lie and call the yet-unpublished ProPublica story misleading.

Previously, the ProPublica journalists had sent written questions to Alito via a SCOTUS PR person, who then told the journalists Alito will not comment, and asked when the story will come out. Then Alito made his preemptive strike.

Alito claimed: “My recollection is that I have spoken to Mr. Singer on no more than a handful of occasions,” and that none of those conversations involved “any case or issue before the Court.”

Alex Mierjeski, another reporter on the team, quickly pulled together a long list of prominent stories from the Journal, The New York Times and The Financial Times that identified Singer as the head of the hedge fund seeking to earn handsome profits by suing Argentina in U.S. courts. (The Supreme Court, with Alito joining the 7-1 majority, backed Singer’s arguments on a key legal issue, and Argentina ultimately paid the hedge fund $2.4 billion to settle the dispute.)

This is quite devastating: “It does not appear that the editors at the Journal made much of an effort to fact-check Alito’s assertions.”

Definitely worth a read.

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