1991 to 2007, Acton & Dystel,Obama\u2019s literary agency, published a brief biography on the future president, stating in the very first sentence that he was born in Kenya, and was raised in Indonesia &Hawaii. Misprints happen in publishing, but misprints are also corrected when information is re-published. Acton & Dystel re-published the Obama bio time after time over several years with that detail remaining unchanged. If I had an agent who was misrepresenting my origin of birth, I\u2019d sure as heck let him know and make sure the information was corrected. Barack Obama didn\u2019t,it\u2019s a no-brainer that the question of \u2018why not?\u2019 should have been posed to him by the media. Yet, it wasn\u2019t<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" #ObamaFAIL https:\/\/bernardgoldberg.com\/what-obamas-literary-bio-says-about-the-media\/ 1991 to 2007, Acton & Dystel,Obama\u2019s literary agency, published a brief biography on the future president, stating in the very first sentence that he was born in Kenya, and was raised in Indonesia &Hawaii. Misprints happen in publishing, but misprints are also corrected when information is re-published. Acton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions\/3446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"img\"\/](\"https:\/\/media.gettr.com\/group24\/origin\/2022\/09\/17\/21\/5fd438af-54bd-960e-9ee5-d3490fd51621\/ff79f95801d762d95b352039e6c21794_500x0.jpg\")
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