The New York Times claims to be preparing a correction over this, but a correction a lot fewer people are likely to read is like telling a jury to disregard what they’ve just heard.
A wily lawyer knows a jury can’t disregard what they’ve already heard, and so does an agenda-driven newspaper.
On Jan. 8, The New York Times published an article by John F. Burns about the British government’s investigation into allegations of crimes committed by employees of News Corp.’s UK newspaper division, News International. Burns wrote:
News International’s acknowledgment that the The News of the World had hacked into [a] teenager’s phone at a time when there was still hope that she remained alive, and deleted messages left by her family and friends so as to make room for others, was a watershed in the scandal.
That’s a reference to a report from last July by the Guardian. Its disclosure that investigators working for the News of the World had intercepted and erased voicemails intended for murdered 13-year-old Milly Dowler was perhaps the single most incendiary detail in the entire scandal and helped trigger the wave of inquiries and resignations that followed.
The problem: It wasn’t accurate, as the Guardian acknowledged in an epic Dec. 20 correction that it appended to that story and 36 others that had repeated the claim. In fact, investigators now say Dowler’s phone carrier automatically deleted the messages in question.
You ever notice that it’s always the oh-so-J-schooled MSM making these epic errors? We lowly bloggers make mistakes, sure, but the doozies are almost always made by those who like to lecture us about accuracy and capital-J journalism.
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Errors, John? You really think it was an error? The Times lied. Pure and simple. All the mea culpas in the world don't erase a lie. They just temper it until it gets reported again, in error, by the LSM.
Fact Check and be unbiased… Your asking a bit much
About as possible as watching the NYTimes becoming profitable again…Watching them circle the toilet is Capitalism in action that you can believe in.
NY Times is no longer credible as a newspaper OR a viable business model. There is an agenda to almost every square inch that they print. They can't be trusted to be accurate or truthful. Or to make money for their shareholders. Period.
Behind that impressive new building facade lie marxist / socialists editors and at best, college-level reporters with no real world experience and little depth of knowledge. Tragic.
Well the state controlled main stream media lead by the NYTimes is about propaganda to support Obama, and propaganda to attack his perceived enemies.
far easier to accuse falsely and retract than to be truthful and convince on the (lack of) merits…
Done all of the time. The fishwrap formerly called the 'Grey Lady' is but another cheap proponent of this tactic.
All conservatives must financially divest themsleves of all progressive owned investments; no NY Times stock (why anybody would own it is a mystery), no Massachussetts tourism, boycott Progressive insurance, drop cable (MTV and PBS would disappear) and the like.
But get on it…
This is what happens when the reporters at the Olde Tymes drink the white floaters in their bathhouse hottub.
That's why they're called the New York Slimes.
You ever notice that it's always conservatives against whom all these "errors" are made?
Just like when they play guess the political party.
That's no "error".
It's legal libel, and it is indeed conspiracy.
How would one dismantle the New York Times?
Any takers?
This is who the NYT is and always has been. They were anti federal during the civil war, quick to blast the generals who were too much of a target, wasting men to save their own face and the NYT published inf on the Iraq war when they signed an agreement not to. Worthless rag.
The NY TIMES… all the Lies that are fit to print, until we retract them later.
The Guardian is the equivalent of the NY Times ,they started the rumors ,they have people on the investigative commission who were previously employed by the Guardian who are now members of Parliament and are obviously biased against NewsCorp .And it is in their interest to bring down the Corporation Slime pure and simple .
As long as you're in the mood to divest yourself of stock in "progressive" companies, you MIGHT consider these: Progressive Insurance, Gieco, Ben and Jerry's, Starbucks. ALL of them are owned by people who give millions to Obama and the DNC and any other far-left organization you can name.
The folks don't call it the, new york slimes for nothing.
And isn't their viewership dwindling?
I wonder why.
Piers Mrgan ran one of the newpapers that did this phone hacking and email hacking. Piers is complicit in it up to his eyeballs. That is why CNN hired him.
It may seem over the top, but thank God for people like you John. I MIGHT be able to do 1/10th the actual reporting you do IF I wanted to work my ass off for so little reward (money). Thank you for keepin em honest, you're an asset to our cause brother.
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