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Fox News publishes embarrassing correction after reporting book excerpt that misunderstood Obama's 'PC meetings' as 'political correctness' meetings

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  • Fox News on Wednesday published a book excerpt that reported Obama-era officials complaining about "doing nonstop PC [political correctness] meetings." The squared brackets appeared in the original quote.
  • The problem is that "PC" stands for Principals Committee, a top-level National Security Council forum, not political correctness.
  • Multiple journalists laid into Fox News for the mistake after its publication, with one former National Security Council senior adviser tweeting: "I am dying."
  • Doug Wead, the book's author, has since confirmed that PC in fact stands for Principals Committee, and Fox News issued an editor's note correcting the mistake.
  • Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Fox News has issued an embarrassing correction after publishing a story claiming that President Barack Obama's White House held regular "political correctness" meetings.

The right-leaning news network on Wednesday published an excerpt from an upcoming book on President Donald Trump's administration. The excerpt cited an unnamed White House source as claiming that Obama-era CIA officials complained about having to spend "a lot of time in the White House doing nonstop PC [political correctness] meetings."

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