NY Times Busted

[NYer]

NY Times Buries The Truth (http://mediacrity.blogspot.com/2006/03/times-buries-truth.html)

In a brief, unsigned article buried deep within the newspaper today, the New York Times admitted that a major "scoop" in the newspaper on Saturday may have been nothing more than a load of ca-ca.

The front-page article, by the Times's house terrorism apologist Hassan Fattah, told the grisly tale of the poor feller who was photographed in a black hood at Abu Gharib. However, Salon last night found that the Times had the wrong guy -- and, as the Times did not point out, that his story had big holes.

Since when did Mary Mapes land a job with the Times? Editorial oversight such as this will do little to reverse the NY Times death spiral.

http://chart.finance.yahoo.com/c/2y/n/nyt

[al-Canine]

You know, I was skeptical about that article from the get-go... especially when I saw the photo reproduction of the guy's business card... hello? Is this for real?




The business card of Ali Shalal Qaissi, an Abu Ghraib torture victim, and the advocacy group for former prisoners that he helped start.

[al-Canine]

I still immensely enjoy reading the Times' Sunday Styles section, though... :D

[NYer]

The NY Times ... Again! (http://www.mudvillegazette.com/archives/004344.html)

Greyhawk at Mudville Gazette fact checks the NY Times ...

NY Times headline, March 27: 30 Beheaded Bodies Found; Iraqi Death Squads Blamed

BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 26 — The bodies of 30 beheaded men were found on a main highway near Baquba this evening, providing more evidence that the death squads in Iraq are becoming out of control.

But Blazing headlines notwithstanding, the odd thing about those headless bodies that provided more evidence that death squads in Iraq were out of control is that nobody ever claims to have actually seen them:

Interior Ministry officials said a driver discovered the bodies heaped in a pile next to a highway that links Baghdad to Baquba, a volatile city northeast of the capital that has been wracked by sectarian and insurgent violence.

Iraqi army troops were waiting tonight for American support before venturing into the insurgent-infested area to retrieve them.

"It's too dangerous for us to go in there alone," an Iraqi Army commander, Tassin Tawfik, said.

In short, some guy said he knew a guy that saw them. Which is how the story should have been reported - as a rumor. But it wasn't.



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