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Gilded Reframe – ASSOCIATED PRESS
The question is how exactly this mistake took place.
Journalists in general would be helped if they followed the maxim, if a story feels a little too good and fits your confirmation of things, that is when you should be skeptical. When it is a story from the AP, that ends up legitimizing why it was sidelined from the White House press pool, you are required to be skeptical.