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CBS News forced into embarrassing takedown over disgraced GOP speaker's obituary
What happened
CBS News deleted and replaced a social media post announcing former House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s death after criticism that it reduced his criminal case to “violating banking laws” while omitting the sexual abuse those violations concealed. According to RawStory, CBS acknowledged that its original post had “missed the mark.”
The replacement said Hastert had been jailed on charges connected to concealing hush-money payments covering up sexual abuse. But The Daily Beast reported that the obituary itself still foregrounded the banking offense and did not mention his abuse of boys…
The skinny
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