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Body Checking the Fact-Checkers – THE NEW YORK TIMES
He was completely wrong, except for the list of evidence you give that…proves him correct.
There are numerous examples of the press becoming unglued over Donald Trump's Cabinet selections, and this one might typify the absence of calm factual reporting being ignored and instead going with an emotional approach. Regarding the announcement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the head of Health and Human Services, The New York Times rushed out with this angry approach…to cereal.
Kennedy at one point noted how Froot Loops sold in the U.S. had more artificial ingredients than what is sold in the Canadian version, and The Times refuted this, by…showing he was accurate:
Mr. Kennedy has singled out Froot Loops as an example of a product with too many artificial ingredients, questioning why the Canadian version has fewer than the U.S. version,” read the original print of The New York Times’ reporting. “But he was wrong. The ingredient list is roughly the same, although Canada’s has natural colorings made from blueberries and carrots while the U.S. product contains red dye 40, yellow 5 and blue 1 as well as Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a lab-made chemical that is used ‘for freshness,’ according to the........