NPR Retracts False Alito Retirement Report After Supreme Court Calls It Inaccurate
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 30
NPR Retracts False Alito Retirement Report After Supreme Court Calls It Inaccurate
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 30
Summary
NPR on Tuesday pulled a story that wrongly said Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito had retired, replacing it by midmorning with an editor’s note acknowledging the error.
The retracted article, written by veteran Supreme Court reporter Nina Totenberg, had said Alito announced his retirement, but he made no such announcement.
A Supreme Court spokesman publicly labeled the report “inaccurate,” prompting the correction as NPR offered no immediate further comment through a spokeswoman.
The episode centers on one of the court’s nine justices and quickly became a high-profile newsroom correction because it misstated the status of a sitting Supreme Court member.