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    'Moving Too Quickly' Again Cited As Cause Of An NPR Newsroom Error

    A mistake might have been caught with more editorial scrutiny.
    by Elizabeth Jensen Dec 03, 2018 4 minutes

    "Moving too quickly" has caused NPR errors in the past. It happened again last Friday, only this time the consequences were greater than simply looking silly by mistaking the details of Easter.

    The Friday online-only morning report, which was updated with an editor's note late that afternoon, incorrectly stated that Donald Trump Jr.'s 2017 Senate testimony conflicted with events described by the president's former lawyer Michael Cohen in a guilty plea on Thursday.

    The report in question was meant to broaden "the aperture of what people in this affair have told Congress," Philip Ewing, the author of the piece, told me. When he reviewed Trump Jr.'s testimony, however, he missed that in his Senate testimony Trump Jr. discussed two different real estate negotiations.

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