NPR’s Nina Totenberg long history of controversies, from plagiarism and ethics concerns to Alito retraction

NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg may have stunned the media industry on Tuesday when she erroneously reported that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring, but the veteran journalist is no stranger to gaffes and controversies. The 82-year-old Totenberg, who has been a working journalist for over five decades, published the story headlined, "Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, retires," but quickly replaced it with an editor’s note insisting