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2007-03-29 Fifth Column

NYT Disavows Female Vet Who Imagined She Had Been In Iraq

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-03-29 10:25|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 " A Times fact checker contacted Navy headquarters only three days before the magazine's deadline." Why would the NYT attempt to discredit a story that fits neatly into it's percption of the Military? Just ANOTHER reason not to subscribe the U.S. version of Pravda.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2007-03-29 10:35|| 2007-03-29 10:35|| Front Page Top

#2 amen

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-03-29 10:41|| 2007-03-29 10:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Why would the NYT attempt to discredit a story that fits neatly into it's percption of the Military?

Exactly. If it fits their agenda all the "rules" of journalism (basic fact-checking, vetting sources, holding a story until those processes are complete, etc.) go out the window, knowing that a correction can be published after the fact (on page H-13 among the public legal notices).

Posted by xbalanke 2007-03-29 12:36|| 2007-03-29 12:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Can someone sue the $hit out of them?

Posted by Crineter Peacock1392 2007-03-29 12:57|| 2007-03-29 12:57|| Front Page Top

#5
It's all just a matter of Factual Relativism.

Posted by j.blair 2007-03-29 13:57|| 2007-03-29 13:57|| Front Page Top

#6 A Times fact checker
A what?

Posted by eLarson 2007-03-29 15:08|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-03-29 15:08|| Front Page Top

#7 So those who paid for their paper can get a refund for the active participation in commercial fraud? Last time I checked, most businesses can't claim ignorance or immunity even if they use material supplied by sub-contractors. They sold lies and just like any other interstate business which engages in such practices they should be subject to punitive action.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-03-29 16:10|| 2007-03-29 16:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Updated NY Times slogan: "Making shit up since 1851".

Posted by DMFD 2007-03-29 17:46|| 2007-03-29 17:46|| Front Page Top

#9 As Robert Heinlein pointed once: there is Truth, and then there's Pravda.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-29 18:41|| 2007-03-29 18:41|| Front Page Top

#10 The good news for Ms Randall is that its still [mostly]PIncorrect for the USDOD to send females to Fort Leavenworth, regardless of offense.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-29 22:20|| 2007-03-29 22:20|| Front Page Top

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