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2014-11-24 Home Front: Culture Wars

NY Times uses a satire news site for its news

Editors’ Note: November 22, 2014

An earlier version of this column was published in error. That version included what purported to be an interview that Kanye West gave to a Chicago radio station in which he compared his own derrière to that of his wife, Kim Kardashian. Mr. West’s quotes were taken, without attribution, from the satirical website The Daily Currant. There is no radio station WGYN in Chicago; the interview was fictitious, and should not have been included in the column.

Posted by badanov 2014-11-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Thereby illustrating the great NYT editorial principle: If it sounds like what we think, we print it.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-11-24 07:53|| 2014-11-24 07:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Gray Lady Gets A Little Grayer: NY Times Admits To Plagiarism And Stupidity In One Corrective Paragraph

The NYTs being the NYTs.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-11-24 15:17|| 2014-11-24 15:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Layers of editors and fact checkers - that's what makes newspapers a better source of information than blogs or the hobos camping under the overpass. According to newspapers, anyway.

Posted by SteveS 2014-11-24 16:27|| 2014-11-24 16:27|| Front Page Top

#4 paraphrasing a quote from the Middle Ages:

"NYTS make lies."

Posted by charger 2014-11-24 19:41|| 2014-11-24 19:41|| Front Page Top

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