LifeSite Does the Right Thing
— Posted by John (June 28, 2007 at 9:07 am)
When you’re in the business of reporting news, accuracy is everything. Thus, it’s never easy to admit you’ve made a mistake.
But that’s exactly what LifeSite did today by retracting a story they published Tuesday with the title “German Pastor Sentenced to a Year in Jail for Comparing Abortion to the Nazi Holocaust”.
When I first saw the story, I had my doubts whether that was really true.
As it turns out, it isn’t. Gerald at The Cafeteria Is Closed explains why.
This morning, LifeSite posted a message that says:
CORRECTION: ARTICLE ON GERMAN PASTOR LERLE RETRACTED
The LifeSiteNews.com story published Tuesday on the jailing of Pastor Lerle in Germany has been retracted after LifeSiteNews.com was informed that we were working with false information from trusted news sources. While Pastor Lerle has in the past been jailed for anti-abortion activities his current one year imprisonment stemmed solely from charges of holocaust denial and not from comparing abortion to the Nazi Holocaust as we erroneously reported Tuesday.
My sincere apologies for this serious error.
John-Henry Westen
Editor
LifeSiteNews.com
Bravo, Mr. Westen, for admitting the error. You did the right thing.
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Quinn says:
That retraction is good to hear. Now, if only Steve Ertelt will do the same thing! Check out the shows on http://WWW.KGOV.COM for Thursday June 29 and Friday June 30 for the info on Ertelt and others misreporting and lies.
You gonna join us in Oak Brook Sunday morning to hear Enyart present Focus on the Strategy II?
Comment posted June 29th, 2007 at 12:53 pm