{"id":1513414,"date":"2022-06-13T10:04:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T14:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1513414"},"modified":"2022-06-13T10:04:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T14:04:13","slug":"factcheckers-ap-issues-correction-after-saying-last-week-it-interviewed-radio-host-who-died-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/factcheckers-ap-issues-correction-after-saying-last-week-it-interviewed-radio-host-who-died-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Factcheckers? AP Issues Correction After Saying Last Week It Interviewed Radio Host \u2026 Who Died In 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffactcheckers-ap-issues-correction-after-saying-last-week-it-interviewed-radio-host-who-died-in-2020%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1513414&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Everybody gets something wrong every once in a while.<\/p>\n<p>Even the Associated Press. But the international wire service is often considered the arbiter of truth and has a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-fact-check\">website<\/a> that features \u201cfact-checking, accountability journalism and misinformation coverage from AP journalists around the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The AP published a piece on Thursday about a new group led by prominent liberals buying up Spanish-speaking radio stations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Latino Media Network, a startup founded by two political strategists who worked for President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign, reached a $60 million deal to acquire 18 AM and FM stations in ten U.S. cities from Televisa\/Univision,\u201d the AP reported. \u201cThe agreement announced June 3 still needs Federal Communications Commission approval.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the piece, the reporter claimed to interview one prominent Hispanic, Martha Flores, who served for years as a host of a show on Radio Mambi.<\/p>\n<p>The only problem is Flores died in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In one correction, the AP wrote: \u201cThis story was first published on June 9, 2022. It was updated on June 11, 2022 to remove comments erroneously attributed to Martha Flores, former host of a show on Radio Mambi in Miami, one of the stations in the proposed deal. Flores died in 2020. The comments were made by another woman. This version of the story removes those comments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, the Associated Press wrote: \u201cMIAMI (AP) \u2014 In a story published June 9, 2022, about the purchase of Spanish-language radio stations, The Associated Press erroneously identified a woman as Martha Flores, former host of a show on Radio Mambi in Miami, one of the stations in the proposed deal. Flores died in 2020. The woman\u2019s identity was unclear but she attended an event expressing concern with the sale held by a coalition called the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter had a field day with the correction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so confused by this article. The AP says it interviewed Miami Radio host Martha Flores on Wednesday, but she\u2019s been dead for two years. How the hell did they pull this off? S\u00e9ance? An ouija board? Did they hire a babalawo to talk to her?\u201d one Twitterer wrote.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;m so confused by this article.<\/p>\n<p>The AP says it interviewed Miami Radio host Martha Flores on Wednesday, but she&#8217;s been dead for two years.<\/p>\n<p>How the hell did they pull this off? S\u00e9ance? An ouija board? Did they hire a babalawo to talk to her? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YCVwlJgG7O\">pic.twitter.com\/YCVwlJgG7O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Giancarlo Sopo (@GiancarloSopo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GiancarloSopo\/status\/1535627101998661633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTypical example of the journalistic standards of the AP. Claiming that they interviewed someone who is not even alive\u2026 and they want you to believe their \u2018fact checks,&#8217;\u201d wrote Christina Pushaw, a spokesperson for Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Typical example of the journalistic standards of the AP. Claiming that they interviewed someone who is not even alive\u2026 and they want you to believe their \u201cfact checks\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cqkAWVaLaq\">https:\/\/t.co\/cqkAWVaLaq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christina Pushaw \ud83d\udc0a \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ChristinaPushaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaPushaw\/status\/1535628061395374080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody gets something wrong every once in a while. Even the Associated Press. But the international wire service is often considered the arbiter of truth and has a website that features \u201cfact-checking, accountability journalism and misinformation coverage from AP journalists around the globe.\u201d The AP published a piece on Thursday about a new group led &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":1513472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1513472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}