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Fox News apologizes to Gold Star family over false story

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Fox News apologized Saturday to a Gold Star family for publishing a false story last month claiming that the family had to pay $60,000 to ship the remains of their fallen relative back from Afghanistan because the Pentagon refused to pay.
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The apology came after a Military.com report this week drew attention to the issue and indicated that the right-wing outlet’s top executives had repeatedly been notified by senior members of the Marine Corps that it was pushing a false story.
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Initially, after being notified about the false report, Fox News only changed the headline on the story to attribute the claims to Republican Rep. Cory Mills of Florida, who had advanced the narrative but later recanted. The outlet later scrubbed the story from its website without a correction or explanation.
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Deleting an entire story is exceedingly rare in news media and is seen as a last-ditch measure if the entire premise of the article is incorrect. Deleting a story without offering readers an explanation or correction is widely considered to be unethical.
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Some of the story was republished Tuesday after families testified at a House hearing on the subject. The family of the soldier quoted in the previous Fox story testified, although the issue in that story wasn't mentioned:

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Gold Star families slam Biden admin over chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal as Milley vows 'accountability'

Joint Chief of Staffs Chairman Mark Milley on Tuesday said that Gold Star families are owed "accountability" after the U.S. marked the two-year anniversary of the Abbey Gate bombing.
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It's been my experience that the website is very different from the TV News reporting. Fox News Digital is it's own division, with its own reporters who are apparently not supervised by Fox News editorial. Their headlines tend to be more controversial than what you'd see on TV. As you can see, it's always about "slamming the Biden administration," even though the URL is less confrontational. Certainly aimed as click bait rather than serious journalism.
 
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Not that there's much "serious journalism" on the TV side either, as they're busy warning everyone that the government is going to ban gas stoves and limit us to drinking two beers per week. They also criticized Biden for (gasp!) petting a rescue dog when he visited Maui.
 

Here's a crazy one that Fox News likes to do in the event somebody refuse to go along with Trump. Former Fox host Tucker Carlson rants about Adam Kinzinger.
 
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