Unfortunately, "Journalism" left the news a long time ago. The mantra "if it bleeds, it leads" has caused almost every organization to send out their hacks for shoddy reporting of hearsay and innuendo. Ad revenue is driven by the information obsessed public and when the two meet we have exactly this sort of thing. The only difference is that if it were a front page slight of you or I, and not this international blunder, then the retraction would be printed on page 53.
