When the liberal narrative is too good to check, media goes with it to attack Walker

Washington Examiner:

Members of the media were quick to report that, included in Gov. Scott Walker's budget, was a removal of the requirements that colleges report campus sexual assault statistics to the state.

The Daily Beast, Huffington Post and others all jumped on a report in Jezebel that tried to paint Walker as being unsympathetic to sexual assault victims. Daily Beast writer Brian Weidy went so far as to claim that Walker's proposal was "just short of explicitly violating Title IX regulations" and possible even "crossing a legal line."

So not only is Walker a terrible person who hates victims, but he's also maybe breaking the law. Or so they said. But for all their eagerness to pile on a leading GOP candidate for president (note the contrast to reporting on Obama in 2008), they were just plain wrong. The outlets involved had to retract the story, although a simple Google News search could have spared them the humiliation.

Walker had actually included these changes in his budget at the request of the University of Wisconsin. The school had requested that the governor remove the requirements because they were duplicative.

"UW System spokesman Alex Hummel said Friday that the university requested the change because information given to the state is duplicative of data required to be reported to the U.S. Department of Education under federal law," the Associated Press reported. "The university also posts the information on its website."
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This is the second blatant failure of the media to check their story before going into attack mode against Walker.  Recently a New York Times columnist claimed Walker was responsible for laying off a teacher a year before he took office.   They are eager to attack him, but that has been true since the day he took office and one of the things conservative like about him is that he is fearless in standing up to their assaults.  These attacks will only make him stronger and the do more damage to the shrinking credibility of the liberal media.