The Atlantic Forced To Issue Major Correction To Report After Admitting Author ‘Deceived’ Readers

The Atlantic was forced to issue a major correction to a report late on Friday night, admitting that an author lied to them and their readers, after a media critic at The Washington Post dug into the report and found numerous issues with it.

Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple dismantled a piece authored by Ruth Shalit Barrett, who allegedly has a checkered past including “a trail of journalistic scandal.”