Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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>>>It's their anti- Bush agenda that ends up giving support to the terrorists<<<


That's the same anti-Bush NYT that printed so much bogus Iraq war propaganda to help get the war started in the first place they later had to wash their hands in public?


"Over the last year this newspaper has shone the bright light of hindsight on decisions that led the United States into Iraq. It is past time we turned the same light on ourselves.

........we have found a number of instances of coverage that was not as rigorous as it should have been. In some cases, information that was controversial then, and seems questionable now, was insufficiently qualified or allowed to stand unchallenged. Looking back, we wish we had been more aggressive in re-examining the claims as new evidence emerged — or failed to emerge.

Editors at several levels who should have been challenging reporters and pressing for more skepticism were perhaps too intent on rushing scoops into the paper. Accounts of Iraqi defectors were not always weighed against their strong desire to have Saddam Hussein ousted. Articles based on dire claims about Iraq tended to get prominent display, while follow-up articles that called the original ones into question were sometimes buried. In some cases, there was no follow-up at all."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/international/middleeast/26FTE_NOTE.html?ex=1400990400&en=94c1...