A liberal journalist is backing up and taking back some words spread about Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida.
Fox News reports that co-host Ana Kasperian of The Young Turks is apologizing to her far-left audience for giving airtime to a discredited individual on the Left who has enjoyed slinging mud at DeSantis over the years.
Kasperian admitted:
The only person that should be held responsible for that is me. Im the [executive producer of the show, and I screwed up] royally.
She had invited Rebekah Jones onto the show but is now apologizing for having done so since someone thoroughly discredited Jones past work. Jones is a former Florida Department of Health data analyst who stated that the DeSantis administration pressured her organization to create or spread false data about COVID when the pandemic was at its peak. However, that is different from what happened. A state inspector general later found that the claims made by Jones were utterly false.
Kasperian offered an apology on the show and said that the show had incorrectly reported some falsehoods related to the stories Jones had tried to spin in the meantime. Kasperian said:
Part of the reason why I screwed up is [because] I had all these biases [of course] against Ron DeSantis.
She said that she doesnt feel bad about having a personal grudge against DeSantis, but she does feel bad that her bias impacted the reporting and caused her and the network to report something false.
Kasperian said:
I shouldve done my due diligence and failed to do so. By failing to do so, [I feel like] I misled the audience into thinking that Rebekah Jones is some [sort of] hero.
That said, Kasperian tried to deflect some of the blame by saying that the mainstream media had pushed the theories that Jones was also going for.
Kasperian said:
If theyre not doing their due diligence, if theyre allowing their personal biases to stand in the way of actual, factual reporting, well, thats, unfortunately, going to trickle into the way independent news sources cover these stories as well.
Other outlets have also given airtime to this discredited individual, including major networks such as CNN and other left-leaning media.
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