Nina Totenberg’s Alito Retirement Error Reveals a Much Bigger Problem ^75.3%

Slate - By Dahlia Lithwick, Sonja West - 7/2/2026, 6:18 PM

Biased Writer Voice 74.8% - Negativity Bias 48.9% - Hasty Generalization 29.8%

This week, veteran National Public Radio reporter Nina Totenberg briefly published a story stating that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. This report was wrong, and within minutes, NPR retracted the story. What followed was a day of public self-flagellation from Totenberg, her editor, and NPR itself, followed by a Cersei... more