NPR “reporter” Nina Totenberg reported Tuesday the retirement of conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, a piece the outlet later admitted was false.
The story was soon taken down and replaced with an editor’s note saying it had been “published in error.”
Totenberg’s fake article was headlined “Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, retires.”
The archived version of the NPR homepage shows that the article held a top featured spot for the brief period it was live, according to Mediaite.
“Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the Supreme Court’s opinion reversing Roe v. Wade, is retiring, the court announced Tuesday,” the article began, noting that the justice’s “name is indelibly linked with the court’s opinion overturning a half century’s worth of decisions declaring that women have a right to abortion.”
“Shortly after the article was published, a moderator in the live chat at SCOTUSblog that had been discussing the morning’s opinions noted that the court’s public information officer ‘just emphasized that the court has not made any announcement to that effect,’” said Mediaite’s Sarah Rumpf.
Totenberg, 82, has a questionable history of cozy relationships with top D.C. Democrat officials and with some of the court’s justices, most notably Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
A number of Washington reporters raised questions of conflict of interest when Ginsburg officiated over Totenberg’s wedding in 2000.
Totenberg pooh-poohed the complaints, saying her relationship with Ginsburg predated the latter’s years on the court.
After Ginsburg died in 2020, Totenberg disclosed additional details of the 48-year-long friendship she had with her, according to Wiki.
The deeply personal nature of their friendship was not widely known to NPR audiences until Totenberg released the obituary.
Subsequently, Totenberg received criticism for not disclosing the friendship.
A top NPR editor called Totenberg’s undisclosed friendship with Ginsburg a conflict of interest (given Totenberg’s role as Legal Affairs correspondent) that implies “one set of standards for senior, elite journalists, and another set of standards for the rest of the staff.”
Likewise, Totenberg revealed a long friendship with Justice Antonin Scalia after he died in 2016, and she has persistently worked to develop tight friendships with other justices and elite lawyers, Wiki says.
Four years ago NPR management required Totenberg to correct a story claiming the chief justice asked his colleagues to wear masks during the COVID pandemic.
In 1972, Totenberg was fired from her position at the National Observer newspaper for plagiarism.
Totenberg’s father, Polish-American virtuoso violinist Roman Totenberg, spent 37 summers teaching and performing at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School in Blue Hill, Maine
I thought Totenberg was a tattoo on Graham Platner’s chest …..LOL
Defund NPR!
It’s unnecessary
Defund NJR. Totenburg and her fellow travelers lie like rugs and have for the past forty years.
Sotomayer likely the next vacancy. She’s a type one diabetic, has greatly outlived her statistical life expectancy, and reportedly has some significant health problems.
Roberts is the worst chief justice ever…
They took it down. What kind of effect would it have had anyway? There are always errors in news. Fox News doesn’t take down their lies until they get sued and charged. Now you’re reporting speculation and implying corruption that amounts to nothing. No one stormed a building or rioted in the streets. There was no resulting genocide. Get a life, where’s the real news. I had to verify I’m not a robot 10 times in 5 seconds just to write this comment.
Babies were ‘special targets’ of Israeli killings – UN probe panel chief
“The attacks by Israel on Gaza show a targeted annihilation of children that should be punished, the head of a UN panel that probed the excesses told RT India.
The violence unleashed by Israeli forces was “unjustified and disproportionate… in considerable terms,” Justice S. Muralidhar, the chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory, said in an exclusive interview.
“The excuse that Hamas could be using hospitals and schools as bases to carry out its attacks will not justify completely demolishing 97% of all of Gaza’s schools,” he said.
The Gaza war began after the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 taken hostage. Israel’s subsequent military operation devastated much of Gaza, killing over 73,000 Palestinians and injuring more than 173,000, according to the local health authorities.
Muralidhar presented the findings of the UN panel on Tuesday and discussed the Israeli violations against children.
Citing a pattern of targeted attacks on children, he said: “When you shoot a 10-day-old baby breastfeeding on his mother… through his head, you can by no means label such a baby as an enemy of the State of Israel and justify these kinds of attacks.”
Israeli quadcopters with thermal imaging cameras can clearly distinguish a child from an adult, he said.
That children were specifically targeted is clear from the number of “instances of babies with gunshot wounds to their head and neck to cause maximum damage.” He added that babies were aimed at with “tiny cube-shaped pellets” that “spread like a cluster of ammunition and destroy all the internal organs.”
“So it became very clear… that babies were special targets,” Muralidhar, who once served as chief justice at the high court in the eastern state of Odisha, said.
He noted that Israeli soldiers recounted on TV how they targeted children with quadcopters, claiming that “their commanders complimented them for doing that.”
Muralidhar said the pattern was clearly revealed “by a collection of all the forms of evidence,” including forensic and medical….”
Liberal rag media doing what they do best, tell their constituents what they wanna hear and are too ignorant to do their own research