Big Journalism on Wednesday reported that the New York Times finally conceded to correcting their article on Brandon Darby’s involvement with an FBI case of domestic terrorism.

While NPR fights for public funding on the basis of its news reporting, Minnesota Public Radio published a factually incorrect statement about the Darby case in the context of a documentary, and needs to correct it:

Darby, by the way, is suing the New York Times for defamation because of this story which revealed him as the informant. He objects to the Times’ claim that he encouraged the two men to make Molotov cocktails.

MPR apparently missed that the NYT retracted its earlier claim that Darby “encouraged” the two men in question to make Molotov cocktails as it was false. Our earlier reporting:

We noted that according to the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota, the assertion Darby “encouraged” the plot was patently false.  On February 27th, we brought in Matthew Vadum, an expert on the circumstances surrounding the plot, to provide broader context to the Times’s smear.

Darby isn’t suing the NYT because they “revealed him as an informant.” He’s suing the NYT because they published falsehoods about his involvement with the attempted domestic terrorist attack.

We ask that Bob Collins with MPR correct his reporting. We will keep you updated.

If you live in Chicago and your only source of news is the venerable Chicago Tribune, it would take you a while to figure out that something happened in Massachusetts Tuesday night. One would think that an editor might place a story with the following lead – oh, I don’t know – front page, top of the fold, maybe?

In a stunning blow to Democrats, Republican Scott Brown ended the party’s half-century grip on the Senate seat once held by Edward M. Kennedy, coming from nowhere to give the GOP the crucial 41st vote needed to thwart President Obama and his agenda, possibly starting with healthcare.

It ended up on page fourteen.

Allow me to repeat: page fourteen. An election that stunned both parties, sent a thundering message to the President and his party, threatens the very existence of the signature piece of legislation that this administration – and the Chicago Tribune – believe is vital to the health and welfare of Americans is a story that, in the judgment of what used to be the beacon of Midwestern values, less important than finding Asian carp DNA in Lake Michigan yet again. (more…)