New York Times Creative Editing Gets Out of Control
Charles Johnson's Outrage of the Day involves the New York Times disingenuously quoting a deceased soldier's pro-war last letter home as anti-war regret (Times: "Corporal Starr...was tired of the harsh life and nearness of death in Iraq." Corporal Starr: "I don't regret going, everybody dies but few get to do it for something as important as freedom. It may seem confusing why we are in Iraq, it's not to me.")
But even skilled editors can't catch everything, and sometimes reality slips the New York Times's ideological filters ("Mr. Abbas... refrained from condemning Islamic Jihad... Mr. Abbas had been warned last week that Islamic Jihad was about to fire rockets toward Israel from Gaza "but did nothing about it.") Solution? Go back and erase it:
Earlier today I linked to an article posted on the Times website that made the following pointed, rare observation about Palestinian boss Mohammed Abbas... But in a revised online version which was posted at 10 p.m. and the print edition Oct. 28, [the criticism] been cut out... Even when Times correspondents try to insert stuff that's unflattering to the Palestinian leadership, Times editors... cut it out
But even skilled editors can't catch everything, and sometimes reality slips the New York Times's ideological filters ("Mr. Abbas... refrained from condemning Islamic Jihad... Mr. Abbas had been warned last week that Islamic Jihad was about to fire rockets toward Israel from Gaza "but did nothing about it.") Solution? Go back and erase it:
Earlier today I linked to an article posted on the Times website that made the following pointed, rare observation about Palestinian boss Mohammed Abbas... But in a revised online version which was posted at 10 p.m. and the print edition Oct. 28, [the criticism] been cut out... Even when Times correspondents try to insert stuff that's unflattering to the Palestinian leadership, Times editors... cut it out
