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Erik Wemple, Washington Post
Wed, 03/20/2013 - 1:02pm

Last April, Fox News chief Roger Ailes stood before an audience at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and declared, "[In] 15 years we have never taken a story down because it was wrong. You can't say that about CNN, CBS or the New York Times." The Erik Wemple Blog, among other outlets, went all archival on the guy, citing instances when Fox News had to correct itself for various falsehoods and distortions, such as vest-wearing deer, Geraldo at war and the tilting Washington Monument.

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