Politics

The White House Names 2,977 Lives

TL;DR

The White House posted 2,977 names on the 25th anniversary; a memorial roll is not a second dump.

MSM Perspective

Friday's X post named 2,977 lives. The CIA dump is the adjoining records file.

X Perspective

Feeds treat a remembrance post as a new death count.

The White House posted 2,977 names on Friday. [1] This paper printed the CIA dump as the day's records file. A memorial roll is not a second carton. Print 2,977 as Friday's number. Do not print a rewritten death toll.

We will never forget is the sentence on the post. [1] The 71 briefs are the agency's sentence. Both ran Friday. Keep them adjoining, not causal.

Friday recap that treats the roll as a new finding is a feed, not the post. Print the 2,977. Leave a second list to the edition that owns a second list.

The roll remains Friday's named list. Saturday is not a second memorial. Print 2,977 as the post's number and not a rewritten 2001.
-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington

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