“There used to be a time when Variety held its content and its reporters to a high standard of truth and facts in journalism, but those days are clearly over,” Heller wrote in a statement to CNN’s Oliver Darcy for his Reliable Sources newsletter on Tuesday night.
“It is stunning to read a piece that is so patently and aggressively false,” Heller continued. “On numerous occasions, we made it clear to the reporter and her editors that they were planning to publish countless anecdotes and alleged incidents that never happened. They did so anyway.”
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