NPR’s ‘Alito Retiring’ Retraction Raises Question: What About All the Other Erroneous Stories It Hasn’t Retracted? ^80.9%

Washington Free Beacon - By Ira Stoll - 6/30/2026, 9:30 PM

Negativity Bias 56.5% - Biased Writer Voice 31.7% - Hasty Generalization 26.9%

NPR has retracted its story claiming that Justice Alito is retiring, replacing it with an editor’s note explaining that the story "was published in error." The coming days will disclose whether the error was publishing it a few days too soon or publishing it at all. NPR attributed it to "a misunderstanding" by 82-year-old Nina Totenberg,... more