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Attention Rachel Maddow: The WSJ did not bury a story

August 17, 2018

Posted by Chris Roush

The Wall Street Journal issued the following statement on Friday:

On Thursday’s show, Rachel Maddow wrongly asserted that The Wall Street Journal “tried to bury online” an article featuring an interview that reporter Peter Nicholas did with President Trump on Wednesday.

Here are the facts:

  • The exclusive ran at the top of WSJ.com on Wednesday night and led the site for much of the day on Thursday.
  • The Journal tweeted the scoop to its 15.8M+ followers.
  • It ran on the front page as the lead story of the print Journal Thursday morning.
  • Even as The Rachel Maddow Show was airing, the article was highlighted in WSJ.com’s “Most Popular Articles” section.
  • It was featured atop Editor in Chief Matt Murray’s daily newsletter sent to nearly 300,000 people.
  • Reporter Peter Nicholas even appeared on MSNBC at 3:07 PM EST Thursday for an interview with Ali Veshi that focused solely on the article. This is the same network that airs The Rachel Maddow Show.

That is not burying a story.

Rachel herself credited WSJ for “a heck of a scoop.” We appreciate the credit, but we’d also appreciate accuracy and fairness.

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