NY Times Admits Fabricating News - Again

[fintstone]

The main stream media just cannot tell the truth. It has lied so much to bolster the libs and damage the administration..and the nation...that misrepresentation is always the first inclination when writing a story...sorta like some of the liberal pundits here.

Sunday, Sept. 25, 2005 10:45 a.m. EDT
NewsMax.com
NY Times Admits Fabricating News - Again

The mainstream media's newspaper of record admitted late Saturday that one of its reporters fabricated part of a news story on Hurricane Katrina relief.

Saying his paper "flunked" the test of basic journalistic fairness, New York Times public editor Byron Calame said Alessandra Stanley's Sept. 5 report claiming that the Fox News Channel's Geraldo Rivera "nudged" an Air Force relief worker out of the way so he could film himself rescuing a Katrina victim had been made up out of whole cloth.

"Since Ms. Stanley based her comments on what she saw on the screen Sept. 4, the videotape of that segment means everyone involved is looking at exactly the same evidence," Calame noted.

"My viewings of the videotape - at least a dozen times, including one time frame by frame - simply doesn't show me any 'nudge' of any Air Force rescuer by Mr. Rivera," the Times internal watchdog said, adding, "Ms. Stanley declined my invitation to watch the tape with me."

Times editor Bill Keller, however, is still standing by Ms. Stanley's bogus report. He told Calame that she was "writing as a critic, with the license that title brings - [and] was within bounds in her judgment."

"Ms. Stanley's point was that Mr. Rivera was show-boating - that he was being pushy, if not literally pushing - and I think an impartial viewer of the footage will see it that way," Keller insisted.

But Calame countered: "Ms. Stanley certainly would have been entitled to opine that Mr. Rivera's actions were showboating or pushy. But a 'nudge' is a fact, not an opinion. And even critics need to keep facts distinct from opinions."

Stanley's bogus report continues a pattern at the Old Gray Lady of making up the news.

Two weeks ago, columnist Paul Krugman was forced to admit that he falsely claimed media recounts in Florida showed Al Gore winning the 2000 presidential election. In August, a Times profile of Hillary Clinton changed a quote first reported by NewsMax where Clinton said she was "adamantly opposed to illegal immigrants."

In the toned down Times version, Clinton's opposition was to "illegal immigration" rather than the immigrants themselves.

[Mulhollanddose]

Isolated incident

[bryanthompson]

In related news, Dan Ratherbiased is talking on cspan right now. it's a taped forum thing at George Washington U.

All softball questions thus far... as I'd expect from journalism students.

[Mulhollanddose]

Scary they applauded the POS after his defense of his fabricated news story...He is an out-of-touch elitist who believes his own BS...He reminds me of that New Orleans Democrat Broussard.

[bryanthompson]

I know there has been at least one FoxNews anchor who had to apologize for comments he had made ("insensitive" or some BS), but has the right-wing, currupt FoxNews had to apologize for forging documents or making up stories entirely or forging documents?

[Mulhollanddose]

It is a double-standard...Dan Rather should be fired and held in disgrace...This is a guy who was proud of himself bringing down Nixon, and now the shoe is on Dan "I am not a crook" Rather's foot...The difference is Democrats, as per usual, roll around in their trash as opposed to take it out to the curb.

[HardDrive]

Originally posted by Mulhollanddose
He is an out-of-touch elitist who believes his own BS....

Aren't all Porsche owners?

[tabs]

I told U boyz the Dems aka Liberals are out apower....no Congress and No Prezidency...that means they don't have their SNOUT in the trough of the public treasury and since they need to grease their constiuency they are desperate and WILL DO ANYTHING to get their snouts back into the trough...even if it means bringing the house of cards down...

[Victor]

Originally posted by HardDrive
Aren't all Porsche owners?

HEY! The idea of a circle wank is that no one lets go of the next guys schlong!

Edit: Smiley added to highlight sarcastic intent.

[928ram]

Not to defend Ms Stanleys story in any way, but they did get the pushy showboat part right; of coarse they left out the egomaniac part. Geraldo is such a dork.

[Mulhollanddose]

[Rodeo]

You guys kill me.

OK, repeat after me ...

admitting mistakes is not a sign of weakness
admitting mistakes is not a sign of weakness
admitting mistakes is not a sign of weakness
admitting mistakes is not a sign of weakness
admitting mistakes is not a sign of weakness
admitting mistakes is not a sign of weakness

It means you care about the truth

[Mulhollanddose]

Rodeo...It wasn't a mistake it was intentional, and their apology was coerced not voluntary.

[CamB]

Well guys, I'm confused. Back in the O'Reilly vs Donahue thread, Bill O'Reilly was opinion, not fact, and should be taken as such. Now someone at NYT is opinion, not fact, but is being criticised for exaggerating (surely someone like O'Reilly has never done that?).

Originally posted by bryanthompson
I know there has been at least one FoxNews anchor who had to apologize for comments he had made ("insensitive" or some BS), but has the right-wing, currupt FoxNews had to apologize for forging documents or making up stories entirely or forging documents?

Fox at very least exercised poor judgement - I remember this:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,134268,00.html

(see the note at the bottom - in a Dan Rather like eagerness to believe that Communists for Kerry were real, the author believed that Communists for Kerry were... real, without checking beyond taking the "communists" word for it.)