Another Day, Another Embarrassing Intelligence-Related Correction (NY Times correction)

Times Watch ^ | 4/14/2006 11:59:09 AM | Clay Waters

[rvoitier]

It's not called Corrections anymore. It's called, Editor's Notes.~~Special Report w/Brit Hume.

[rvoitier]

In the paraphrased words of Mary (Rather-gate) Mapes, "It's not up to us to prove the documents authentic. It's up to others to prove the documents were false."

[rvoitier]

In Mary (Rathergate) Mapes' own words.
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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

In fairness to the Grey Lady, I believe they still print corrections on page A2, second page of the first section. The corrections page is more for correcting the record than changing impressions. The readers read the initial story and form lasting impressions. The secondary media, TV and wire services, run with the original story and the corrections never make it into the public debate.

[tomnbeverly]

NYT HEADLINE:

GEORGE W. BUSH ACTUALLY AN ALIEN....

Followed the next day but retraction on page Z26.... George W. Bush pushes for legislation to reform the process of dealing with illegal Aliens...


Typical MSM...

[Jotmo]

All corrections should be printed in the same place, with the same size headline as the original story which contained the falsehood, and the headline written by their fiercest competitor.

Can you imagined, front page above the fold,

We Screwed Up!!!

[Grampa Dave]

Where does the Times print corrections and retractions? Page A39?

[Grampa Dave]

fyi

Just another example of a drive by shooting/lie by the maggots of the NY Slimes, who hate our military, our president, his cabinet and our country.

[TheCornerOffice]

The Times reports it, AP picks it up and runs it. Thousands of newspapers and local news reports cover it...

Yes, you're so right. Via the endless repitition of key phrases read off the wire on local radio and TV stations (and sometimes even on a syndicated Christian radio network that I hear) the Times and AP are propagandizing the left's agenda.

How many times have you heard or seen the phrases "warrantless wiretapping" and "domestic eavesdropping," even in the local news outlets? I haven't researched it thoroughly, but I'd bet that at least one of the phrases is in every NYT article about the admin's intelligence policies. Heck, they even state "domestic eavesdropping" as if it's an accepted and proven fact in the retraction quoted in this thread.

To me, the brainwashing effect of those phrases being repeated again and again is even worse than the various fabricated facts in articles.

[beyond the sea]

"Another Day, Another Embarrassing Intelligence-Related Correction (NY Times correction)" ----

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Well ........ at least they're consistent.

;-)

[BIGLOOK]

Thanks for the ping, Dave.

I'm reading Crichton's Airframe and it has two surprisingly good descriptions of how the media operates. One on the print and one on televised news topic exploitation (i.e. Sixty Minutes tripe).

Stories are prewritten, interviews are 'gotcha' moments and facts are edited to extinction.

[Grampa Dave]

"Stories are prewritten, interviews are 'gotcha' moments and facts are edited to extinction."

That sounds correct. Combine it with my tagline, and we have the miserable state of the MSM in America today.

[Liz]

SULZBERGER Hit again.

"Gosh, Dads, why'd you hafta hit me.......you coulda just cut off my allowance."

[april15Bendovr]

LoL, I want one of those. I would even slap the NY times logo all over it.

[Lancey Howard]

Bump.

This is the kind of sloppy reporting everybody has come to expect from the former self-proclaimed "paper of record". Only thirty five years ago the NY Times was considered a top shelf newspaper. It's hard to believe now.

[Fruit of the Spirit]

The NYT and the Post make deliberate mistakes to raise the ire of Democrats against the Bush Admin.

[Grampa Dave]

"The NYT and the Post make deliberate mistakes to raise the ire of Democrats against the Bush Admin."

The answer is both more simple and more sinister.

The corporate culture of the large fishwraps is one of lying to create bad news for their enemies. Since 2000, their number one enemy to lie about has been GW and his cabinet members.

They deliberately lie, spin, use fake polls and quote without real sources to create the fiction, they try to pass as news to harm GW and his cabinet members.

They have gotten by with this for decades. Now they are caught before the ink really dries up on the fishwraps by conservatives on the internet.

That same corporate culture of lying has led to lies about their circulation numbers in order to get paid more ad inch. They are the Enrons of the Fish Wrap industry.

[maica]

The drive-by media even lie to themselves. Our local rag has an article in the Sunday "Ideas" section (not accessible on line yet) titled:

NEWS WHITEOUT
by Nick Madigan
The Bush administration has frustrated reporters by ignoring their questions and sticking to its message. That strategy might no longer be working.

This graf is written under a picture of the President in front of the White House logo in the briefing room. Superimposed on his photo is the depiction of nine stacked (3x3) TV screens, giving the impression of standing behind a window or barrier of some sort.


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Can anyone tell me why they maintain that he does not speak to reporters? Is it because they only have a few questions --

1) When will you admit your mistakes?

2) When will you admit you stole the election?

3) When will you abandon the White House and give us the final Dick Nixon wave as you leave?

[Fruit of the Spirit]

4) When will withdraw the troops from Iraq?