NBC News still hasn’t gotten around to publicly elaborating on what part of reporter Miguel Almaguer’s report on the assault of Paul Pelosi was “unreliable,” eleven days after it aired.
The Washington Post‘s Paul Fahri reported:
Much of Almaguer’s account was inaccurate, based on flawed information provided by a source who was unnamed in the report, according to people at the network. Those people said Almaguer was incorrect when he reported that the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gave police no indication he was in danger when he answered the door. In fact, San Francisco police have said that Pelosi was struggling with the intruder, David DePape, when they first saw him.
If that is indeed the case, why did NBC News not publicly say so? Why is this coming out in the form of leaks from “people at the network”?
It’s entirely plausible that Almaguer was misled by a source, and/or that the reporter didn’t do enough to try to verify the claims of that source. Apparently NBC is genuinely irked with the correspondent.
NBC Today show correspondent Miguel Almaguer has been suspended pending an internal investigation after NBC News had to retract his reporting that inflamed right-wing conspiracy theories about the brutal assault on Paul Pelosi, Confider has learned.
So why can’t, or won’t, NBC News come out and say, “We have no reason to believe Paul Pelosi did not indicate to police that he was in danger”? Why the vague explanation that the report “did not meet NBC News reporting standards”?