excalibur
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Yet fake news is telling people this guidance just occurred. What a useless group they are (but propagandists for the Demonrats).
Hell, Maggie Haberman doubled down on dumb. Truly the NY Times leads the pack in fake news.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
Hell, Maggie Haberman doubled down on dumb. Truly the NY Times leads the pack in fake news.
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On Sunday, for example, a handful of journalists suggested White House staffers “finally” received official COVID-19 guidance from management, days after the president's diagnosis. This narrative falls into the "misleading 'scoops'" category. White House managers have been sending guidance staff memos for months.
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The problem here is that White House management has been sending out coronavirus guidance emails for months. The note obtained by Haberman, Nuzzi, and others is certainly not a first, though it is presented as such. In fact, the most recent COVID-19 guidance is nearly identical to the ones sent in March, April, and May, according to White House staffers.
The credit for (quickly) fact-checking this story goes to my former Washington Examiner colleague Philip Wegmann and the Washington Examiner’s Jerry Dunleavy, both of whom obtained previous, near-identical White House COVID-19 memos within hours of the supposed “scoop.”
Later, after it was demonstrated that the White House has sent multiple COVID-19 guidance emails this year, Haberman took a crack at defending the newsworthiness of her reporting, claiming the most recent note includes the “possibility of teleworking for the first time,” unlike in previous memos.
This is not true either. Dunleavy obtained two White House memos from April showing that staff in the Executive Office of the President were encouraged to telework. Wegmann likewise produced a note from May showing Executive Office of the President employees were encouraged to “practice maximum telework.” Another email from March 10 said that “supervisors are encouraged to authorize sick leave or telework.”
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On Sunday, for example, a handful of journalists suggested White House staffers “finally” received official COVID-19 guidance from management, days after the president's diagnosis. This narrative falls into the "misleading 'scoops'" category. White House managers have been sending guidance staff memos for months.
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The problem here is that White House management has been sending out coronavirus guidance emails for months. The note obtained by Haberman, Nuzzi, and others is certainly not a first, though it is presented as such. In fact, the most recent COVID-19 guidance is nearly identical to the ones sent in March, April, and May, according to White House staffers.
The credit for (quickly) fact-checking this story goes to my former Washington Examiner colleague Philip Wegmann and the Washington Examiner’s Jerry Dunleavy, both of whom obtained previous, near-identical White House COVID-19 memos within hours of the supposed “scoop.”
Later, after it was demonstrated that the White House has sent multiple COVID-19 guidance emails this year, Haberman took a crack at defending the newsworthiness of her reporting, claiming the most recent note includes the “possibility of teleworking for the first time,” unlike in previous memos.
This is not true either. Dunleavy obtained two White House memos from April showing that staff in the Executive Office of the President were encouraged to telework. Wegmann likewise produced a note from May showing Executive Office of the President employees were encouraged to “practice maximum telework.” Another email from March 10 said that “supervisors are encouraged to authorize sick leave or telework.”
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No, the White House did not just issue its first-ever COVID-19 guidance for staffers
Members of the Trump administration have given conflicting and apparently misleading accounts of the president’s health since he announced he tested positive for the coronavirus.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
