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Major Mistakes in New York Times Story About Rape in Military
FOX News ^ | 03/26/07 | Rick Leventhal

Posted on 03/26/2007 2:57:36 PM PDT by FriendlyFreeper

The Times admitted it distributed an article in the March 18 edition of its Sunday Magazine, while knowing the story contained some glaring inaccuracies. The article was about women who served in Iraq, the sexual abuse some say they endured, and their struggles in reclaiming their pre-war lives. But one of the women profiled, who said she'd been raped twice and suffered brain damage when a roadside bomb exploded next to her Humvee, was never actually IN Iraq.

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1 posted on 03/26/2007 2:57:38 PM PDT by FriendlyFreeper
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To: FriendlyFreeper

Kudos to Fox for exposing the NYT.


2 posted on 03/26/2007 2:59:22 PM PDT by SolidWood (Islam is an insanity cult that makes everyone act Arab)
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To: FriendlyFreeper
Remember, liberal are never to be judged by the outcome of their actions, only their intentions. The intent of the story is to discredit the military. So in liberals' eyes this was a rousing success, truth be damned.

This article will be referenced in nearly every history book published from this day forward.

3 posted on 03/26/2007 2:59:24 PM PDT by GoBucks2002
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To: FriendlyFreeper

Sedition.


4 posted on 03/26/2007 3:02:10 PM PDT by JoeSixPack1
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To: FriendlyFreeper

Fake but accurate.


5 posted on 03/26/2007 3:02:19 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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To: FriendlyFreeper

Quick, which is falling faster at the NYT?

a. Their stock price.

b. Their circulation.

c. Their credibility.


6 posted on 03/26/2007 3:04:17 PM PDT by keat (You know who I feel bad for? Arab-Americans who truly want to get into crop-dusting.)
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To: FriendlyFreeper

Cosmic truth.


7 posted on 03/26/2007 3:04:30 PM PDT by ArtyFO (I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire at the moonbat loonery.)
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To: keat

and remember, they had the other major mistake a few months ago -- in the story about imprisoning women in south america for having abortions. it turned out that the main woman featured in the article went to jail for suffocating her baby AFTER it was born -- not for having an abortion in the first trimester (as they reported).


8 posted on 03/26/2007 3:06:14 PM PDT by FriendlyFreeper
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To: FriendlyFreeper

It's not about guilt or innocence, but the seriousness of the charges...


9 posted on 03/26/2007 3:06:24 PM PDT by gogeo (Democrats want to support the troops without actually being helpful to them.)
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To: FriendlyFreeper
Never let it be said the Slimes would ever let the truth get in the the way of one of their anti-military "stories"

This is why the American public is so completely misinformed about what is really going on over there. From the first day of the war the American public has been fed a healthy helping of agenda-driven bull$hit from the lamestream drive by media. They gleefully report how many soldiers were killed by IED's but never mention "fluff" like the fact that one year after we crossed the berm the number of functioning hospitals in Iraq was at 90%, up from 10% when the war started. Never be it said that a month after we got to Baghdad, American soldiers were rebuilding schools and guarding them so that children that had not attended schools in years were back in the classroom. Never be it said that once the US got into Iraq, Army, Navy and Air Force physicians and dentists were treating people in the country that have never seen either. Death and misery sells. Good stuff is "fluff".
10 posted on 03/26/2007 3:09:04 PM PDT by stm (Believe 1% of what you hear in the drive-by media and take half of that with a grain of salt)
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To: FriendlyFreeper

Mistakes? Mistakes, my old Aunt Fanny!

This is a pattern of behavior by the Slimes. Not a mistake, a pattern of behavior, and it's intentional.

Somebody spits on you once, that might be a mistake. Same somebody does it three times, it's time for a punch in the nose.

NY Times is a piece of trash "newspaper" with less credibility than the Globe, the Star, and the National Enquirer combined.


11 posted on 03/26/2007 3:10:14 PM PDT by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: SolidWood

This has been on Michelle's radar for a while.

http://www.michellemalkin.com/mt/oct05-tb.cgi/6508


12 posted on 03/26/2007 3:14:29 PM PDT by GoforBroke
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To: FriendlyFreeper

I think it really was a mistake. With the military being as large as it is, they could surely have found several women who had been raped and/or suffered injury in Iraq, and were willing to be interviewed. Never mind that these were only a few people out of a very large number who have served in Iraq over the years.

But it certainly wasn't a mistake that they neglected to print a prominent correction, maybe an insert into the magazine section that had already been printed. They had several days to do it, but they did nothing.

They can be blamed at least three ways: 1) for writing yet another hit piece against the military and the Iraq war with carefully selected, one-sided witnesses to back it up. 2) for carefully selecting only witnesses who made their propaganda point and throwing out any testimony that contradicted their case. 3) For neglecting to admit that one of their chief witnesses had outright lied in timely fashion.

The sad thing is that this probably happens several times every day, but they only get caught doing it maybe once a week.


13 posted on 03/26/2007 3:21:10 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: FriendlyFreeper

Somebody in the MSM should undertake a expose' on the NYT, bringing to light the high number of communists working and publishing at the paper. Probably won't happen, though.


14 posted on 03/26/2007 3:22:17 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: keat
Their credibility, which causes a decline in circulation, which causes a drop in stock price.

That about right?

:^)

15 posted on 03/26/2007 3:23:17 PM PDT by the anti-liberal (OUR schools are damaging OUR children)
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To: FriendlyFreeper

"Major Mistakes" !!! Enough of all this spin talk, call it what it really is.

Put simply, sedition is the stirring up of rebellion against the government in power. Treason is the violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or state and has to do with giving aid to enemies or levying war. Sedition is more about encouraging the people to rebel, when treason is actually betraying the country.

The NYT has more than earned both charges.

What they report are not "inaccuracies" or even incompetence's gone wild, but much more sinister acts with criminal intent, design and lasting deadly results.


16 posted on 03/26/2007 3:24:43 PM PDT by Gator113
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To: FriendlyFreeper
The Times admitted it distributed an article in the March 18 edition of its Sunday Magazine, while knowing the story contained some glaring inaccuracies.

I'm left wondering how this can be characterized as a "mistake."

17 posted on 03/26/2007 3:28:51 PM PDT by delacoert
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To: delacoert

Zactly.


18 posted on 03/26/2007 3:33:52 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: FriendlyFreeper
Rita Randall in happier times.


19 posted on 03/26/2007 3:37:51 PM PDT by ricks_place
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To: FriendlyFreeper
Mistakes or outright lies? With the Slimes, who can tell?

Mark

20 posted on 03/26/2007 3:47:30 PM PDT by MarkL (Environmental heretics should be burned at the stake, in a "Carbon Neutral" way...)
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