Facing a quarter of a billion dollar lawsuit in the case of Nick Sandmann, a Covington Catholic Schoolboy, The Washington Post has issued a correction and deleted their original tweet. They say that Nathan Phillips is not a Vietnam vet, and defended themselves lamely.
They acknowledge it was erroneous but then they downplay it and put it behind a paywall on a Friday night. Their reporting was layered with false and defamatory information as Mollie Hemingway says, but they are shielding themselves. They do disavow the original reporting, and that should help Nick Sandmann.
They did NOT offer an apology for their egregious fake reporting and lack of journalistic ethics. They are defending their bad behavior and their racist activism in lieu of even the most minimal investigation.