Posted on 04/17/2014 9:45:25 PM PDT by Mount Athos
I quoted the story as it was written some hours ago.
But they've changed it, without acknowledging the change.
WAS: Pushilin acknowledged the flyers were distributed by his organization but he disavowed their content, according to the web site Jews of Kiev, Ynet reported…
NOW IS: Pushilin acknowledged that fliers were distributed under his organization's name in Donetsk but denied any connection to them, Ynet reported in Hebrew.
This is a major change in reporting -- from Pushilin admitting his men to handing them out, to a mere acknowledgement that he's aware of leaftlets purporting to come from his organization.
They have gone from reporting he publicly admitted that his men were dropping these leaflets, to him denying that.
This is not just a minor change in wording. This reverses, completely, their reporting on a key point.
We do not criticize the media for getting things wrong-- everyone gets things wrong, especially in fast-moving stories, and especially in cases of relying upon a translation.
But this is a major change to the original reporting and must be acknowledged as such -- otherwise people (like me) will go on thinking USAToday's original report was correct.
We don't get mad that they get things wrong. That is understandable.
We get mad that they can't bring themselves to admit they've gotten something wrong, and forthrightly correct the record.
And I have to think this is borne of incompetence. Competent people do not fear corrections, because they know they're getting things 90% right, and that's all you can hope for in this world.
It's the incompetents who are fearful that their next screw-up may mean their heads.
So I have to assume that USAToday considers itself incompetent, and on thin ice as far as the accuracy of its reporting.
Thanks to Anon Y. Mouse, who spotted this and was persistent in alerting me about it.
“WAS: Pushilin acknowledged the flyers were distributed by his organization but he disavowed their content, according to the web site Jews of Kiev, Ynet reported…
“NOW IS: Pushilin acknowledged that fliers were distributed under his organization’s name in Donetsk but denied any connection to them, Ynet reported in Hebrew.”
Could it be a matter as simple as getting Ynet’s Hebrew correctly translated?
However they got it wrong, it completely changes the facts of the report and a proper retraction should be issued instead of a stealth edit.
The mistake itself is not a concern here. To quote the OP:
We do not criticize the media for getting things wrong-- everyone gets things wrong, especially in fast-moving stories, and especially in cases of relying upon a translation.But this is a major change to the original reporting and must be acknowledged as such -- otherwise people (like me) will go on thinking USAToday's original report was correct.
Everyone who has at least a basic background in PR understands what happened.
All of these are psy-ops by US democrat-trained Kiev authorities.
In Russia, all citizens over the age of 14 have to have a “passport.” This is an internal form of identification. The passports contain (among other things), you name, place of registration, and your nationality.
In Russia, the Jews are considered a nationality. So, if you are a Jew living in Russia, you are listed as “Jewish” in your passport. In short, you are registered as a Jew.
What are they doing differently in Ukraine?
~In Russia, all citizens over the age of 14 have to have a “passport.” This is an internal form of identification. The passports contain (among other things), you name, place of registration, and your nationality~
In fact removing nationality from newly issued national IDs was one of the first post-Soviet reforms in Russia, Cowboy Bob.
Older Soviet passports issued under communists, featuring ethnicity, were declared invalid in 2002 or 2004.
Granted, I haven’t looked closely at a Russian passport for the last 2-3 years, but when I did, it mentioned nationality. This was a Russian passport. Not Soviet.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Passport_of_Russia
In fact a post-1997 form lacks blank space to put ethnicity into.
You have probably seen older-issued passports. I might be wrong if you are so sure but AFAIK it was an older Soviet form.
BTW, there is a reform in place to abolish internal passports and use driver’s license or sosec ids instead.
Ace found a big change...basically acknowledging, it appears, that those leaflets were a hoax.
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