The wire services really blew it when they said that Putin
would "strike" at the US if we bombed Syria. However, everyone who's
ever worked for a wire service knows about the rowback. At the moment the
Associated Press is saying that Putin will continue to supply arms to Syria,
but is saying that the Dow Jones news service is the one that's saying Putin
would strike against the US if they bombed Syria.
Wire services never admit they were wrong. In a book that was
hard to find 40 years ago, Deadline Every Minute, a wire service
announces that Charles de Gaulle, French Pres., was killed at the airport. But
they don't admit they were wrong. First they have him injured. Then they have
them escaping injury. It takes the rest of the day to say there was no attack
on de Gaulle at the airport.
Wire services had apparently picked up the Dow Jones
newswire story about Putin's threat, failing to remember that Rupert Murdoch,
who owns Dow Jones, doesn't care whether something is true or not when he publishes
it. So other wire services got pulled into this and had to get out of a bad
situation.
It just takes a while
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