NPR’s Supreme Court correspondent Nina Totenberg apologized for incorrectly reporting Justice Samuel Alito’s retirement. Totenberg explained that she misheard a statement from Chief Justice John Roberts, leading to the error.
Apology and Explanation
Totenberg discussed the mistake on ‘All Things Considered’ and read the text of her apology to Alito. She stated that she ‘rushed out of the courtroom’ and misheard the word ‘announcements,’ assuming it was a retirement announcement.
Totenberg called the mistake ‘the worst professional mistake of my more than 50 years in journalism’ and said she is ‘so, so sorry.’ NPR’s editor-in-chief, Thomas Evans, stated that the organization has systems in place to avoid such mistakes and will learn from the incident.
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