New York Times admits ‘Caliphate’ podcast based on botched reporting

NYPost ^ | Lia Eustachewich

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The New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-nominated podcast about ISIS was an “institutional failure” that included shoddy reporting based off interviews with a “con artist,” executive editor Dean Baquet said Friday.

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Shocking! (not really)

[americas.best.days...]

“Botched”

Never “false”, “ misleading”, “dishonest”.

Even the Post has their back.

[LongWayHome]

Botched reporting is an NYTs tradition.

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<“As a result, The Times has concluded that the episodes of ‘Caliphate’ that presented Mr. Chaudhry’s claims did not meet our standards for accuracy.”

The Times has "standards for accuracy"?

Who knew?

[LongWayHome]

It goes back to the 1930s and the Walter Duranty coverage of the Ukraine famine by the Times. They covered for Stalin’s mass murder.

[Paladin2]

Unlike the rest of their drivel and dreck?

[Rummyfan]

The Times... suckered again by a made-up story, this time on their podcast operation. Seems to happen to The Times with regularity. Ha ha.

[VeniVidiVici]

Have you seen the New York Times podcast about Swalwell and his Chinese Communist cohort?

Neither have I.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

DAN RATHER AWARD!