The VergeWe ran the wrong headline about the fired FTC commissioners https://www.theverge.com/policy/633397/ftc-bedoya-slaughter-democrat-media
Zack Stern@verge hitting a paywal to read this lols
Carolyn@zackstern @verge "We also caught flack for our own headline, which put “illegal” in quotation marks, attributing it to the Democratic commissioners. “@theverge.com, y’all need a more accurate headline,” a reader told us on Bluesky. “They’re not SAYING they were illegally fired, they WERE illegally fired. The precedent set in Humphrey’s Executor almost a century ago makes that crystal clear - but you don’t address that until the next to last paragraph. DO BETTER!”"
@verge "The FTC is an independent agency, and the president cannot simply fire its commissioners..."
"What Trump did on Tuesday was wackadoodle beyond belief. It violated Supreme Court precedent from 1935 — Humphrey’s Executor v. US, a case that is literally about the limits of presidential power when it comes to firing FTC commissioners."
For media to correct itself & use terms like "wackadoodle." Nicely done. :)
Gabriel N@verge Laws in your country are nothing but suggestions when Trump is involved.
Ben Royce 🇺🇦
Omar Antolín@verge Did you see this, @jeffjarvis ? It's so nice to see a news organization apologize for a sanitized headline.
Jeff Jarvis
Francois Heinderyckx@oantolin @verge @jeffjarvis
They identify one of two causes of such misleading headline: “News outlets … all went up with their articles as fast as they could.” They omit cowardice.
They identify one of two causes of such misleading headline: “News outlets … all went up with their articles as fast as they could.” They omit cowardice.