[RISU]

The Washington bureau of The New York Times has been flooded with
complaints today about an article purportedly written by two of our reporters.

I'm hoping -- in the interest of fair play -- that you will post this
explanation on your site, which is where the erroneous information originated.
The article being cited appeared in an Australian newspaper, The Age.
Although it carried the bylines of our reporters, Richard Stevenson and
James Rutenberg, in fact much of the material in the article was from The
Washington Post. The Post material included the passage about the
group Sept. 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. (Originals of the Post
article and The Age articles can be found on their Web sites, if you would
like to doublecheck).

Combining materials from different news services is, of course, common
practice in this country and overseas. The problem, when it is done
sloppily, is that people are blamed -- or credited -- with work they did
not do. I will take up my complaints in that arena with the editors of The Age.

I'm hopeful that you will post this as swiftly, and distribute it as
widely, as the initial error was circulated.

Thank you for your consideration.

Susan Jo Keller

[doug from upland]

Susan, thanks for responding. The original was pulled by the Admin Moderator as soon as I heard from Dick. We tried to set the record straight as soon as possible.

Now, when can we expect the NY TIMES to do a real investigative piece on Sept. 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows? Just calling them families of victims does really not do justice to the story. If we can provide you any background information that will make the job easier, we will be very pleased to do so.

May I make another request? I believe it was in 1984 that John Kerry did a TV ad against the wishes of the Park Police in front of the Vietnam Memorial. He shamelessly used the wall as a backdrop in a political commercial. Will the NY TIMES do that story? If you have the intellectual honesty to write it, we will be very pleased to cite it here with an excerpt and link it back to your site so you can get thousands and thousands of hits.

[doug from upland]

Susan, I hope you have come back to the thread. Can you tell us if someone will be assigned to do the story about the Heinz funding?

[doug from upland]

Susan Jo --- how is the story about the set up coming?

[doug from upland]

Susan Jo, we are still waiting for the TIMES to write about the Heinz connection to the outrage and about moveon.org's involvement in setting it up. Well???