Three days after it was revealed that this guy's license was wrongly listed as suspended due to a clerical error, none of the publications listed here (NYT, WP, NYP, USA Today, BBC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC) have issued corrections or updates. reason.com/2024/06/03/t... - ThreadSky

radleybalko.bsky.social • 270 days ago

Three days after it was revealed that this guy's license was wrongly listed as suspended due to a clerical error, none of the publications listed here (NYT, WP, NYP, USA Today, BBC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC) have issued corrections or updates.

https://reason.com/2024/06/03/the-viral-story-about-a-defendant-driving-with-a-suspended-license-was-fake-news/

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drsean.bsky.social•270 days ago

The great paradox is I never would’ve heard about this man w/o this corrective post, and likely most who hear the original post won’t see the correction were it made. The best solution is to resist the temptation to race to publish w/o confirmation.

possums.lol•267 days ago

I absolutely love that this scolding over incorrect reporting also turned out to be incorrect reporting.

statesdj.bsky.social•267 days ago

It gets even weirder:

Michigan man whose court hearing for suspended license went viral never had license, judge says

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/06/06/michigan-man-who-went-viral-for-driving-with-suspended-license-was-never-licensed/73993197007/

cchoetso.bsky.social•270 days ago

Oh, this makes me so very angry.

egality.bsky.social•270 days ago

Wait til you find out about literally every single other story they’ve done in the last 60 years.

tropism.io•268 days ago

https://www.wxyz.com/news/region/washtenaw-county/he-has-never-had-a-michigan-license-judge-slams-corey-harris-as-suspended-driver-is-locked-up-again

alaskanweeb.bsky.social•270 days ago

Truly a lie makes it around the world before the truth gets its shoes tied

powerfromspace1.bsky.social•269 days ago

Then it's defamation and bro 😎 you deserve a lawyer

joshuajfriedman.com•270 days ago

One responsible outlet so far! USA Today wrote a follow-up

rednecklefty.bsky.social•269 days ago

Radley, some questions for you, @billybinion.bsky.social and the rest of us -
These articles had at least 2 people who made choices here for the clicks - the reporter (who may have signed the article) and the editor.
Who are they?
Have they responded anywhere about this?
Has anyone asked them?

indorfin.bsky.social•270 days ago

None of the publications you listed do journalism anymore 🤷🏻‍♂️

brasscastle.bsky.social•270 days ago

Journalists don't do journalism anymore. It's all brand support like the rest of us.

abtnatural.bsky.social•270 days ago

I think your statement that "Harris' license had been reinstated years prior" is erroneous. The January 2022 order was presumably on Form FOC 86, which explains on it that the reinstatement won't happen until the licensing agency receives the order from the court and the fee from the defendant.

reverendjesus.com•270 days ago

God.
Dammit.

ergoone.bsky.social•270 days ago

I hope these news outlets will issue updates! The origonal story wasn't their fault ; it was news. But some news gets the facts wrong. People don't deserve to have the uncorrected stories follow them forever!

joegordon.bsky.social•269 days ago

Counterpoint: not all facts are news. Some things that appear to be worth publishing (because funny, or interesting) turn out on inspection to be very different. And we can absolutely want more from those outlets than being Story Aggregators

ergoone.bsky.social•269 days ago

In other circumstances than correctong a false report, absolutely. However, if you publish a story with materially false information involving innocent people, you need to publish any corrections -- as prominently as the original story.

joegordon.bsky.social•269 days ago

I think I was awkward in my reply. Yes, I agree with every word you said.

futureed.bsky.social•270 days ago

Sure sure, but fuck that judge for having him report to jail for doing something he was legally entitled to do

bunnyjadwiga.bsky.social•249 days ago

Follow up on the Reason story says it turns out he never had a license at all... But I agree with the follow-up: this shouldn't have been national news.

andrewagill.bsky.social•270 days ago

I still maintain that if his trial was for a suspended license he should not have called from his car. Even if you're right, it makes you look foolish in front of the judge, which is not a good thing.

ajwitz.bsky.social•270 days ago

One of the corrective articles I saw said his wife had a serious medical issue and she was dependent on him for the ride to the doctor’s. He dropped her off at the front door and then parked his car for the zoom.

andrewagill.bsky.social•269 days ago

Honestly even Zooming from the back seat would be preferable. Actually if he was dropping off his wife, that would be perfect: can't establish who was driving at the time.

thecubic.net•270 days ago

He very reasonably might've thought it was an error because the government ordered his license reinstated and told him.

Multiple lawyers in that court room failed to look that up and the PD did the worst job (IMHO) by not researching whether the charges had probable cause before that hearing

thecubic.net•270 days ago

theoretical judge: "I'm going to revoke his bail"
theoretical PD: "your honor, I'd like the Court to be aware of this order reinstating the defendant's license"
judge: "okay, not revoking his bail then. oh, hey, prosecutor..."

insortediaboli.bsky.social•269 days ago

Some victim blaming bullcrap here

futureed.bsky.social•270 days ago

Cars are a lot of people's only quite space. Also, waiting for you case to be called for regular calendar (this seemingly was a first appearance, arraignment) takes a while.

Furthermore, he had a license, so driving, even if he was on trial for driving w/o one, is 100% legal

dvosk.bsky.social•269 days ago

The hearing was over child support, not a driving-related offense.

chuck.social•270 days ago

He probably couldn’t afford an Uber and I bet public transportation sucks where he is. And it sounded like he was going to a dr appointment so who knows how his health could’ve been negatively affected if he missed it.

I give him a pass.

impliedoralconsent.com•270 days ago

Nope. If your license is suspended you don't drive. Find another way.

Yes, his license shouldn't have been suspended but it technically was at the time of the hearing. Not sure how this will turn out for him but plenty of judge's would give him a new suspension even if the original was incorrect.

ridder.bsky.social•269 days ago

Please try reading: "license suspension lifted in 2022"

timpanogosslim.bsky.social•269 days ago

Steve Lehto, who practices law in Michigan, explained that the crappy reality is that when the court suspends you it really suspends you, but when it lifts suspension it's your responsibility to take the paperwork to the DMV.

So it was ordered lifted, but he didn't do the leg work.

serienya.bsky.social•268 days ago

Betting he was never told that.

jennytulls.bsky.social•269 days ago

Wow, what a lack of empathy on top of being wrong. Here in the real world you don't always have another option and you do what you can. Go heal your heart

chuck.social•269 days ago

it wasn’t suspended, did you not read the article?

serienya.bsky.social•268 days ago

His wife had an urgent medical appointment, so he had to get her there.

brd.bsky.social•270 days ago

KIRO 7 in Seattle is running a story on tonight's news on how this was all a big mistake. I know that's not any of the large publications listed, but just wanted to report that at least somebody was trying to update the story

sailbarque.bsky.social•270 days ago

Would it be wrong to say Fuck the Judge too?

suept.bsky.social•270 days ago

What did the judge do wrong?

sailbarque.bsky.social•269 days ago

He told Mr. Harris to report directly to jail! Mr. Harris spent two days in prison because the judge wouldn't hear his explanation. I hope Mr. Harris gets an apology directly from the judge.

tunak.bsky.social•270 days ago

A bunch of stuff, apparently. https://ballotpedia.org/Judge_Cedric_Simpson_judicial_misconduct_case_(2014-2017)

suept.bsky.social•269 days ago

I don’t see this trial is listed on that page.

sailbarque.bsky.social•270 days ago

Nice look @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com

profgidlow.bsky.social•269 days ago

who gives him his life back?

bonjohnson.bsky.social•270 days ago

This is so messed up!!

ptarnation.bsky.social•270 days ago

look, cnn is busy informing the public that alcohol consumed in flight acts like regular land-based alcohol

they don’t have time for this

torrleonard.bsky.social•270 days ago

“Harris' license had been reinstated years prior and was only registering as suspended due to a clerical error.”

Did Harris not say that on the video?

torrleonard.bsky.social•270 days ago

To be fair, a guy taking his court Zoom call while driving (which is illegal in MI) is still funny.

kwh561.bsky.social•269 days ago

This isnt really a full telling either, the news story indicates the clearance wasnt received AND he still needed to pay a few fees to be reinstated. Anyone whos been thru that knows you usually have to go thru a dumb ritual of handing a letter from the clerk of court to the dmv.

radleybalko.bsky.social•270 days ago

This story went viral in a big way. It's going to follow this guy around in ways that both are and are not apparent to him.

These news outlets really need to post updates to the original stories.

jonpkay.bsky.social•267 days ago

Did you see this story took another bizarre turn?

cchoetso.bsky.social•270 days ago

Just awful. Just so very awful.

metalheadesq.bsky.social•270 days ago

Looks like you picked the wrong day to convince people not to cancel their WaPo subscriptions!

legalminimum.bsky.social•270 days ago

Their response: why should this be the only time when accuracy matters to us.

torrleonard.bsky.social•270 days ago

It was shown on KTLA and all the anchors had a big laugh… 🙄

torrleonard.bsky.social•269 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/torrleonard.bsky.social/post/3ku2wjxz4sz2v

jesterthejedi.bsky.social•270 days ago

1! How is he doing?
2. The News owes him big. He deserves to have his named cleared and have an public apology.
3. Any pro-bono lawyers stepping up to sue for defamation/damages?

jefg.bsky.social•269 days ago

Not the first time Reason has issued a correction when many of the biggest media outlets ran with a false story.

mintamenapie.bsky.social•266 days ago

Update to the update is more wild: https://reason.com/2024/06/06/viral-story-about-bogus-viral-story-was-also-bogus/

cannibal.holiday•269 days ago

CTV News published it as well.
Would be great if he could sue all those news outlets for defaming him, since they made no effort to verify the facts.

illdave.bsky.social•270 days ago

His name is Corey Harris.

wendysparrow.bsky.social•270 days ago

This poor guy.

And it never should have been that big of a story.

marksimploding.bsky.social•270 days ago

I also had my license suspended even though the “fix it” ticket was on the judges desk for a week. Its all a scam. Nobody gives a rats ass about innocent people. They only want their pounds of flesh!

marksimploding.bsky.social•270 days ago

Pro tip….make lots of money so you can afford a lawyer for your kids so they don’t get railroaded by the police. It will save thousands in insurance premiums.

ursa13.bsky.social•269 days ago

I don't really watch the news or take the big news corporations seriously because it's all about sensationalism when it should be simple reporting.
Nowadays it's "how many clicks and eyes can we get, how can we make this headline more outrageous than it is?"

kevinaiello.com•270 days ago

Thanks for this. Saw the original story and now this correction.

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