Another Bad Slip for 'NY Times': Katrina Victim Unmasked

E&P ^ | 03/23/2006 | By E&P Staff

[Aliska]

They've been doing this right along. I had been researching an individual and found and purchased an article in the archives published September 16, 1909. I got a separate article from the Greenwich Library about the same event, and the names and facts do not quite match. I'm sure it has happened a lot over the years.

It's such a huge daily paper, it is bound to happen. When called to their attention, they do publish errata. But not on the 1909 article :-)

I'm not excusing it, just saying that's the way it is. Can you imagine all the extra time it would take to check public records before publishing a story? Some can't be found, some aren't released to anyone but a close relative, some are only released to descendants, some not at all, sometimes you have to go there in person, each county is different.

I don't want to unjustly accuse the Times of anything, but when it's a good story that might fit their agenda, they can print it and so few people read who know the real story/individual that many similar errors have probably never been caught. It's not like your hometown newspaper where more people know the names and facts.

[ladtx]

NYT==

[bondjamesbond]

Some stories are too good to check. If they checked this woman out and it turned out her story was fraudulent, they would not have had a hammer to back the President with. The only surefire way to prevent this is to not check the story, and print whatever lies anybody might feed you, as long as it supports your agenda.

Meanwhile the documentary evidence coming out of Iraq showing an Iraqi connection to 9/11 "may have limited evidentiary value"...

[Rakkasan1]

"paper of redactions"...

[Diddle E. Squat]

Surprise, surprise, surprise....

[Dog Gone]

Rush is talking about this now.

[bondjamesbond]

In all seriousness, anyone who reads anything from the MSM needs to first truly understand that what he is reading is NOT the real story. It may actually be a story, but it is NOT the whole truth or even anything close.

Have you ever noticed that every time you have direct personal knowledge of a newsworthy event, when you read the story in the newspaper the next day, they have just about everything wrong? This happens over and over again. Talk to anybody who has been the subject of a newspaper story, and they'll tell you the same thing.

And yet, those same people will pick up the New York Times the next day and believe every word.

[Rokke]

"And yet, those same people will pick up the New York Times the next day and believe every word."

It happens on FreeRepublic all the time. Freepers, of all people, should be well aware that the media is almost completely untrustworthy. Yet, several times a day (hour!?!) Freepers kneejerk themselves into hysteria based on the latest lies published by the AP, CBSnews, or the NYT's. It's like Charlie Brown and Lucy. How many times do you have to get the football yanked from in front of you before you stop falling for the same old crap.

[SuziQ]

"For its profile, The Times did not conduct adequate interviews or public record checks to verify Ms. Fenton's account, including her claim that she had lived in Biloxi. Such checks would have uncovered a fraud conviction and raised serious questions about the truthfulness of her account."

That's because the only thing the NY Times cared about was the fact that she was bashing the Bush Administration.

BTW when is this incompetent reporter going to be fired?

[Enchante]

Good photo, but we really need one of BURNT toast..... charred, ugly burnt toast...... that is the MSM.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

It's already found it's place at every Starbucks in the country. That should tell you something right there.

That it's absorbent and good for blotting up spilled coffee.

[Southack]

"For the second time in less than a week, The New York Times today admitted to a serious error in a story. On Saturday it said it had misidentified a man featured in the iconic "hooded inmate" photograph from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Today it discloses that a woman it profiled on March 8 is not, in fact, a victim of Hurricane Katrina--and was arrested for fraud and grand larceny yesterday."

It's no surprise that the NY Times staff can find fraudulent felons faster than any other news source...but in the past the NY Times wasn't caught quite so fast!

[devolve]

[ConservativeGreek]

you cant rebuild ~ 50,000 homes with 4 days notice.

Of course, you are correct. Its the status I have difficulty with.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Is this Looter Guy's Looter Girl?

[BamaGirl]

The New York Times will soon find its rightful place next to the other tabloids at the supermarket checkout. Hey come on now! I bet you the National Enquirer report most accurately and truthfully than the NYT.

[BamaGirl]

The New York Times will soon find its rightful place next to the other tabloids at the supermarket checkout.

Hey come on now! I bet you the National Enquirer report most accurately and truthfully than the NYT.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

What do you expect?

Guy Trebay used to work for the Village Voice before moving uptown to The Old Gray Lady.

Dana Milbank was groomed for his role as chief Bush critic at WaPo by liberal, niche magazine TNR.

Journalism is an incestuous pit of unchallenged, doctrinaire leftist groupthink, with everyone patting each other on the back and exclaiming how backward all of us proles-who are patriotic and hold conservative values-are.

[potlatch]

We gotta get ready for baseball season!

[potlatch]

My plane can fly better than your plane even with a case of the bird flu!!