Veteran PBS correspondent Judy Woodruff apologized on Wednesday for comments she had made on the air regarding former President Donald Trump and negotiations for a cease-fire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.
Woodruff, during PBS’ Democratic national convention coverage on Monday, repeated a story she had read in Axios and Reuters that Trump had allegedly been encouraging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to put off peace talks until after the U.S. election in the belief that a deal could help Democrat Kamala Harris’ campaign.
But Woodruff said in a post on X Wednesday that she had not seen later reporting that the story had been denied by the Trump campaign and Israel. She said her remarks had not been based on any original reporting on her part.
“This was a mistake, and I apologize for it,” Woodruff said.
Woodruff’s long career in journalism has included time at CNN and NBC News. She was host of PBS’ “NewsHour” between 2013 and 2022, before stepping down for a reporting project.
(AP)
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She needs to call every single moderator/news source who is now spreading this falsehood and ask them to retract.
America is criminally holding our hostages for their own demise….sorry ..this Israeli won’t talk to an America anymore…bullies….plain and simply bullies……shame on all of you for not having these hostages be the first thing that is released…..beyond votes and politics…America….Rot in Hades……all of you ……
(a/k/a berlbalaguleh)
It’s interesting that Judy Woodruff and the other liberals of her ilk like the New York Times always make such “mistakes”. And later retract their original stories.
At the beginning of the first Intifada in Israel the esteemed nespaper of record the NYT displayed a picture on the front page of someone with blood pouring down his face who is being held by 2 Israeli police officers. The headline reported that a “Palestinian” demonstrator was clubbed by the police.
when it later turned ou that they were wrong. ‘the person i the picture was an Israeki Jewish resident who was injured by the palestinian arabs the NYT issued an “apology” and a retraction. In one of the middle sections on a back page. In a small, 2x6in. column.