You tell me---

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Whats with this liberal rag of a newspaper--
Which is it --
their writers are totally incompetent
--or just politically motivated
How smart does one have to be to check who author of paper is??

wonder which page the posted this retraction--as they are daily affairs---

NY Times has Roberts Evidence?

A New York Times story yesterday described a 30 page, unsigned memo the paper said was written by chief justice nominee John Roberts (search) during his days in the Reagan White House, as evidence on how Roberts might rule on current libel laws.

The Times wrote that the memo, which criticized a court ruling increasing media protections against libel suits, was much harsher on the subject than Roberts' congressional testimony and showed "a deep hostility toward the press." The trouble is, the memo was written not by Roberts, but by Bruce Fein (search), who was the FCC's general counsel at the time. Today's New York Times corrected the error.

 

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I agree I don't like it when news groups do a story. Then next day say I guess we were wrong. It's same with TV. In fact it may be worse. These talk shows I don't care witch network CNN, FOX, BBC any of them. They have guest or reporters that tell you how they think or see something. The next day when they fine there wrong or there opinion does not fly. We get the 20 second retraction. I don't know what has happen to the industry as a whole including talk radio where they take all kinds of liberties to say anything true or not. But it has gotten out of hand. And our political parties have helped.

 

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Well Well Well maybe someone will force them to put all their retractions in one place so they'll be easier to find--maybe they can put out 2 additions of paper --regular one in morning and retractions in afternoon--Will say one thing other media outlets (except Al-Gezeera and a few others)sure have cut back on quoting times--tired of constance egg on face next day after the bloggers rip expose them.



Friday, September 30, 2005

By Brit Hume



Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine:

New York Times public editor Byron Calame (search) is pushing the paper to enforce its corrections policy for Op-Ed columnists after the same factual error appeared in four different columns without a formal correction.

The columnists accused the Bush administration of cronyism, arguing that FEMA director Mike Brown (search) got his job largely because he was a college roommate of Joe Allbaugh, a former FEMA director himself as well as a Bush campaign manager. They were variously described as roommates or "college buddies." But in fact, though they are friends, they were never roommates and didn't even attend the same college.

One of the four columnists, Frank Rich (search), corrected himself in a recent column, but Calame has asked the Times to enforce its existing policy calling for "uniformly publishing corrections at the bottom of opinion columns."

 

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'NY Times' Finally Runs Full Correction on Krugman Column, Announces New Policy

By E&P Staff

Published: October 01, 2005 11:55 PM ET

NEW YORK Just days after it ran an editors' note--under pressure from outside and within--that sort of admitted it had erred in a blast at Fox News' Gerald Rivera during the Katrina tragedy, The New York Times finally ran a full correction on Sunday, on its editorial page, for a miscue by columnist Paul Krugman, while announcing a new policy on noting errors on that page.

Krugman had three times previously admitted getting wrong part of his Aug. 19 column about media recounts of the 2000 Bush-Gore race, but critics kept claiming that he still hadn't gotten it quite right. Editorial Page Editor Gail Collins wrote on Sunday that it had turned into a "correction run amok."

After publishing his third correction on the Web, Krugman asked Collins, she wrote, "if he could refrain from revisiting the subject yet again in print. I agreed, feeling we had reached the point of cruelty to readers. But I was wrong. The correction should have run in the same newspaper where the original error and all its little offspring had appeared."

Collins also announced that the paper would henceforth be running regular corrections and "for the record" explanations under the Times' editorials. Today she published several in the "for the record" category. One notes that Krugman, Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich all incorrectly stated that former FEMA director Michael Brown went to college with his predecessor Joe Allbaugh. Another corrects where Mick Jagger made a certain statement about economics.

And here is what one hopes is the final word on that Krugman column, in the Sunday correction:

"In describing the results of the ballot study by the group led by The Miami Herald in his column of Aug. 26, Paul Krugman relied on the Herald report, which listed only three hypothetical statewide recounts, two of which went to Al Gore. There was, however, a fourth recount, which would have gone to George W. Bush. In this case, the two stricter-standard recounts went to Mr. Bush. A later study, by a group that included The New York Times, used two methods to count ballots: relying on the judgment of a majority of those examining each ballot, or requiring unanimity. Mr. Gore lost one hypothetical recount on the unanimity basis."

 

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Two hours after the president nominated Harriet Miers (search) for the Supreme Court, citing her work for such charities Exodus Ministries (search), Hunter College political science professor Kenneth Sherrill released a statement blasting Miers' affiliation with the group, which he said provides support for men and women "recovering" from homosexuality.

Sherrill, who specializes in gay politics, offered to appear on television to discuss whether Miers could rule impartially on important gay rights cases before the court, saying, "Someone had better look at this pretty quickly." Well, someone did and it turns out the professor had the wrong Exodus, confusing Exodus International (search) with Exodus Ministries, which encourages ex-criminals to reunite with their families. Sherrill has since apologized.

Newsroom Critique

Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz (search) reports that messages criticizing the paper's editorial direction are flying around the newsroom in a spontaneous e-mail debate. Kurtz cites one such criticism from Book World editor Marie Arana, who writes, "we wear liberalism on our sleeve and are intolerant of other lifestyles and opinions... You must be liberal, progressive, a Democrat. I've been in communal gatherings in The Post, watching election returns, and have been flabbergasted to see my colleagues cheer unabashedly for the Democrats."

The reaction of executive editor Len Downie to that message was that the message proves that "we do have a diverse staff when it comes to ideological backgrounds"

Fourth and Final Fix?

The New York Times has issued a formal correction for columnist Paul Krugman's (search) false claim that a full hand recount in Florida would have given the presidential election to Al Gore in 2000 -- the paper's fourth attempt to fix the error. Krugman tried to correct the August 19 error himself in a subsequent column, but Times ombudsman Byron Calame objected to the informal clarification.

Krugman then published a more formal correction on August 26, but had to fix that after he relied on an incorrect Miami Herald report. The new correction will be appended to Krugman's original columns and editorial page editor Gail Collins says the paper will now run regular formal corrections under the Times' editorials.

Ronnie's Revelations

Texas prosecutor Ronnie Earle (search) is a man obsessed with removing money from politics, according to a documentary based on special access to the prosecutor during his investigation of Tom DeLay. The National Review reports that in "The Big Buy," Earle says he "feels a great pressure" to alert the American public to the evils of corporate political contributions, which he calls "every bit as insidious as terrorism."

What's more, an assistant Austin DA tells filmmakers that Earle single-handedly pushed the DeLay investigation over his colleagues' objections, telling his staff "just keep hacking at it." One critic says Earle doesn't distinguish between what's illegal and what he thinks is wrong, saying, "you say...'Is that against the law?' He will say it's wrong. You say, 'Well, OK... Where is it that it

 

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Just the Facts

It's been two weeks since two Democratic Senatorial campaign committee staffers resigned for illegally accessing the personal credit report for Maryland lieutenant governor and possible Republican Senate candidate Michael Steele (search). Now, The New York Times has run it's first story on the subject, and this is what it says: "National Republicans, who face an uphill battle in their efforts to capture the open United States Senate seat in heavily Democratic Maryland next year, are trying to exploit potential legal problems that Democrats are now suddenly facing in that race."

As for New York's senior senator and DSCC chairman, Chuck Schumer (search), he's not mentioned until the 16th and final paragraph.