NewsBusters pulls post asking why falsehood-laden Reuters story was pulled

In a February 3 post, NewsBusters' David Lanza wrote that “Reuters should be made to explain why” it withdrew its February 1 article, “Backdoor taxes to hit middle class,” claiming that the report was “fair enough.” After Media Matters for America's Jocelyn Fong noted that Reuters had already stated that the story was removed because its claims were “wrong,” and that the conservative American Enterprise Institute and Tax Foundation had come to the same conclusion, Lanza's post was removed from NewsBusters' site and replaced with: