Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The Media - the New York Times
When they make corrections (after being caught) without announcement, my respect goes under water.
Welcome to the current world of the New York Times...
At DailyCaller.com, Matthew Boyle seems to have caught the New York Times in a fabrication. He explains:
"Charlie Savage, a reporter for The New York Times, violated the newspaper’s own code of ethics by printing a false story about the ongoing congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious on Tuesday evening.
For the Times, Savage reported late on Tuesday that House Speaker John Boehner had 'opened direct negotiations with the Department of Justice aimed at resolving a dispute over subpoenaed information related to the botched gun-trafficking investigation dubbed Operation Fast and Furious.' The story ran under the headline 'Boehner in talks with Justice Dept. on gun-running inquiry,' implying that the speaker was directly participating in talks.
Boehner spokesman Michael Steel, however, said the report was not true, and in a blog post attacking the Times, Boehner’s office wrote that neither the newspaper nor Savage reached out to Boehner’s team before publishing the story.
Savage has since 'updated' the post, as opposed to issuing a correction for the implication that Boehner was directly negotiating with the Justice Department."
