{"id":387450,"date":"2018-12-02T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T10:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/wall-street-journal-issues-multiple-corrections-over-epic-editing-gaffe-rt-us-news\/"},"modified":"2018-12-02T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T10:43:09","slug":"wall-street-journal-issues-multiple-corrections-over-epic-editing-gaffe-rt-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/wall-street-journal-issues-multiple-corrections-over-epic-editing-gaffe-rt-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Journal issues multiple corrections over epic editing gaffe \u2014 RT US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.11\/thumbnail\/5c012c11dda4c8da228b456a.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 30 Nov, 2018 12:45 <\/time><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Edited time: 1 Dec, 2018 11:02 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        The Wall Street Journal has issued a correction after incorrectly identifying the president of Russia as \u2018Vladimir Trump\u2019. They then appeared to edit their own correction in an effort to cover up the almighty gaffe. <\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>The paper issued an initial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/trump-cancelling-planned-meeting-with-russias-putin-1543509907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">correction<\/a> at the bottom of online article on Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/445167-trump-cancels-planned-meeting-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cancellation<\/a> of a planned meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires on Saturday, which read: \u201c<em>Vladimir Putin is president of Russia. An editing mistake erroneously identified him as Vladimir Trump in an earlier version of this article. (Nov. 29)<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/445167-trump-cancels-planned-meeting-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE: Trump cancels planned meeting with Putin at G20 over Russia-Ukraine flare up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, the paper then later corrected their correction to remove exactly what they \u201c<em>misidentified<\/em>\u201d the president as. The edited version now reads: \u201c<em>Vladimir Putin is president of Russia. An editing mistake misidentified Mr. Putin in an earlier version of this article. (Nov. 29).<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mistake and subtle attempt to mask the blunder didn\u2019t go unnoticed by amused readers who took to Twitter to poke fun at the \u201c<em>amazing<\/em>\u201d gaffe.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reminder that the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WSJ<\/a> accidentally identified Vladimir Putin as Vladimir Trump in an article earlier today and had to issue a correction. Still the best thing I&#8217;ve seen all day.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WajahatAli\/status\/1068418118840545280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"read-more-big\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/445193-trump-putin-cancel-g20-reasons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"read-more-big__container\"><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__content\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__subtitle\">Also on rt.com<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__title\">Bad publicity? Cohen? Russiagate? Many reasons Trump canceled Putin meeting, but Ukraine isn\u2019t one<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__cover\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.11\/thumbnail\/5c002b04fc7e9327788b45a2.jpg')\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/445232-vladimir-trump-wsj-error\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 30 Nov, 2018 12:45 Edited time: 1 Dec, 2018 11:02 The Wall Street Journal has issued a correction after incorrectly identifying the president of Russia as \u2018Vladimir Trump\u2019. They then appeared to edit their own correction in an effort to cover up the almighty gaffe. 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