Murdoch Meltdown

glatt · 07-16-2011, 07:47 AM

They did a correction on that story the next day. I hadn't heard the original story but I did hear the correction. David Johnston was absolutely mortified at how badly he fucked the story up. He was reading the financial report wrong and read negative numbers as positive. News Corp paid $4.8 Billion. They didn't get a refund of $4.8B.

The correction was amazing. These NPR reporters kept trying to explain how they made the mistake and were absolutely mortified at how wrong they got the story.

I don't know how to search for it, but it's an amusing story to listen to if you find it.

07-16-2011, 07:47 AM	#11
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	They did a correction on that story the next day. I hadn't heard the original story but I did hear the correction. David Johnston was absolutely mortified at how badly he fucked the story up. He was reading the financial report wrong and read negative numbers as positive. News Corp paid $4.8 Billion. They didn't get a refund of $4.8B. The correction was amazing. These NPR reporters kept trying to explain how they made the mistake and were absolutely mortified at how wrong they got the story. I don't know how to search for it, but it's an amusing story to listen to if you find it.

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