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This Is What A Good NPR Correction Sounds Like

...And one correction that could been better handled.
In this 1972 archival photo, host Linda Wertheimer holds a grease pencil to mark audio tape for editing. The term "blading" refers to when cuts to tape were made manually via razor blade.

Last Friday, All Things Considered aired a four-minute piece that was an extended on-air correction to an on-air interview that aired two days earlier, about Gina Haspel, President Trump's nominee for director of the CIA.

As corrections go, it was major. The original mistake was made not by NPR but by ProPublica, an independent investigative news organization on whose reporting NPR often with the ProPublica reporter who had investigated the role Haspel played at a secret CIA prison.

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