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Bloomberg News apologized Monday for prematurely publishing a story last week that revealed a prisoner exchange involving the United States and Russia and said it had disciplined the employees involved.

The story moved nearly four hours before an embargo on the exchange was lifted by the White House.

John Micklethwait, Bloomberg’s editor-in-chief, said in a memo to staff Monday that the story represented a clear violation of ethical standards. Bloomberg would not say how many employees were disciplined and did not identify them.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fuck you, Bloomberg. That wasn’t a small mistake. The was a journalistic catastrophe. You have no credibility anymore.

[–] SMillerNL@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean “anymore”? Did they have any left after making up a story about how the Chinese government backdoored every chip without any evidence or sources?

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't gonna lean into that one because I didn't expect most people to know about it, but John Gruber (daringfireball.net) has been going off about that story for years. They've been shady in the open for a while now.

[–] SMillerNL@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, that was my recent reminder of that too.

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So what was the error? That they published a story 4 hours before the US Fed Govt had authorized disseminating the info?

[–] johker216@lemmy.world 43 points 3 months ago

Russia could've turned the aircraft around and scuttled the deal. The government wanted the news of the exchange to only take place after the prisoners touched US soil and couldn't be kidnapped back to Russia.

[–] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago

It's not uncommon on sensitive stories like this for the government to loop-in journalists ahead of time so they can pull together background and research with an agreed-upon embargo until some point in the future.

This wasn't the US government telling the newspaper they couldn't report on a story they had uncovered from their own investigation.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

it was blooperg

[–] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago

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