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Via Fox News, Republican strategist Matt Whitlock made quite a catch with this a few days ago.
I’ve never heard of an op-ed being “updated” or otherwise revised days after it was originally published unless there was an error of fact in the first version. A newspaper has an obligation not to mislead its readers; if an op-ed does that then it’s appropriate to correct the record by reworking the piece after it’s gone live. (Along with a note indicating what happened.) But I’m unaware of any editorial standard by which an author is allowed to rewrite parts after the fact to make the text less politically troublesome for him or her. A regrettable opinion isn’t a factual error. “Updating” a piece to save face is nothing more or less than trying to hide the evidence of one’s earlier opinion lest it embarrass the writer or cause trouble for them somehow.
California politician compares herself to Rosa Parks for refusing to wear COVID mask
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Outcry after anti-mask California politician compares herself to Rosa Parks
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Temecula council member Jessica Alexander.temeculaca.gov
A California legislator has come under fire this month for saying that being told she has to wear a mask is comparable to Rosa Parks being forced to sit in the back of the bus.
Temecula council member Jessica Alexander made the comments in an April 13 virtual meeting; she compared her disagreement with public health measures to Parks civil rights struggle, as first reported by the Press-Enterprise. I think something we can all understand and agree with is that look at Rosa Parks, she was accommodated to the back of the bus, but she finally took a stand and moved to the front, because she knew that that wasn’t lawful … It wasn’t true,” Alexander said, according to a video of the meeting posted on YouTube (watch at 2 hours, 55 minutes). “So she took a stand. At what point in time do we? I m getting to the point in