The Times thought it had a scoop, interviewing the Abu Ghraib prisoner in the most infamous photo from the scandal. They carefully said how they determined it was the guy, thanks to an injured hand. But Salon says it’s not the guy and the Times puts a story in the paper quickly saying it is reinvestigating. This is the speed at which corrections should occur — yes, even before you know what is correct.
Abu Ghraib, Abu Shraib
Gag me with another fake but accurate story on the front page of the NYT.
As you, Jeff, extol the virtues of quickly printing news of “reinvestigation” of a Front Page Piece which was only designed to beat the perpetual BASH BUSH drum, you fail to mention how it was unsigned and buried in the very bowels of the paper.
Their admitted fact checking consisted of communicating with “the military” (whoever the hey that was), but not the Army’s Criminal Investigation Command, which noted that “several” claimed to be the robed one [No Doubt!]; the guy’s lawyer; Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. Hahahahaha. Oh, and they also relied on Vanity Fair and PBS. Hahahahaha.
Bravo, NYT! Even better, now that you’ve effectively buried news of your need for “reinvestigation”, the world has of course *clearly* been apprised that your piece was just another piece of trash. Bravo for burial skills! This is crack(pot) reporting at its finest…the kind of reliable, non-biased news fabrication we’ve come to expect and enjoy from the NYT – at least for it’s comedic value.
I can’t wait for the follow-up, prominently displayed Front Page Article after they’ve completed their “reinvestigation”, no doubt right next to another piece about the former GITMO prisoner who complained of all manner of abject torture, like “being directed to pray to the North instead of the East”.
For more information on the author, “terrorism apologist Hassan Fattah”, as well as other information the NYT “carefully” failed to include from the Salon article, see
http://mediacrity.blogspot.com/2006/03/times-buries-truth.html
And maybe, just maybe, Jeff, the NYT should ‘know what’s correct’ BEFORE they print trash on the front page to begin with.
I give them a 10 for expertise in burying news about their front page faux pas. That’s about it.
On another note, I hope your heart, hand and knee continue to mend well.
Amen Eileen.
I think we are long past caring about the self-authored corrections at the NYT.
The only “correction” they could make that I would care about involves purging every current writer, Pinky stepping down, a full admission of all the mistakes they have made starting with the whitewashing of Stalin’s and Mussolini’s sins, and issuing a comprehensive apology to all of humanity for all the pain, suffering, and ignorance their agitprop has wrought.
In lieu of that, I will continue to get my NYT “corrections” from bloggers.
In fact, it seems like all I do read are the corrections – heck that is where the truth lies.
And in a few years, after the NYT has been exiled to an isle called Irrelevance, puerile college students will openly wonder how pioneer bloggers could have gotten so far by simply correcting egregious Big Media falsity. They’ll curiously wonder how newspapers, magazines, and the network news became so riddled with incompetence and how the public was so slow to realize this.
They will correctly see the era of MSM dominance as a sort of Dark Age.
An italian journalist too had interviewed that prisoner for a tv channel last month, saying he was the hooded man. I’ll write to the journalist now, if he hasn’t read the NYT – Salon story yet. The interview can still be watched here:
http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ran24/speciali/abugrhaib_ranucci/default.htm
Carlo,
Why the hell would I want to watch yet ANOTHER interview of a non-hooded, but most assuredly bearded, terrorist? If your invitation was meant to assure us that it took place, I buy it without ingesting even MORE bilious taqiyya.
You don’t need to go there, my friends..
Carlo, I’m gonna ‘assume’ you have good intentions in notifying your buddy. But you know what?
Islamofascists be damned.
The NYT be damned.
Liberal MSM the world over – hell-bent on destroying civilization as we know it due to terrorist supporting agendas – all of you be damned!!
[...] Michelle Malkin in “Going Down, Down, Down”, Regret the Error, and others covered the New York Times’ inability to do their homework regarding the identity of the hooded man shown in an infamous photo from Abu Ghraib prison. Thanks to Salon for getting to the bottom of this one. Jeff Jarvis sums it up thusly: The Times thought it had a scoop, interviewing the Abu Ghraib prisoner in the most infamous photo from the scandal. They carefully said how they determined it was the guy, thanks to an injured hand. But Salon says it’s not the guy and the Times puts a story in the paper quickly saying it is reinvestigating. This is the speed at which corrections should occur — yes, even before you know what is correct. [...]