All the misleading sub-headlines fit to print
The White House on Wednesday took the rare step of publicly asking The New York Times to change the sub-headline of a story on the destruction of CIA tapes showing the interrogations of suspected terrorists.
At issue is the story’s sub-headline that stated: “White House Role Was Wider Than It Said.” The White House called this sub-headline inaccurate and demanded that it be corrected…
…The White House argues that the newspaper article implies that “there is an effort to mislead in this matter,” adding that such a conclusion is “pernicious and troubling.”
Catherine Mathis, senior vice president of corporate communications for the newspaper, stated that the sub-headline has been changed, adding that a correction would be printed.
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There is an effort? How about this is probably the 9000th time this year with misleading headlines, subheads, etc.
Sheesh!
I’m so shocked that the New York Times would do this.
Gee … wonder how many copies they sold without the “correction” … those folks that bought the “non-corrected” version will never know about the changes because the “correction” will be buried in some obscure part of a page no one will be likely to read …
More Dem water-carrying by the AQ Times … spreading more lies and innuendo as fact …
Someone ought to start a newspaper:
MEDIA CORECCTIONS TODAY
One of GW’s greatest errors as President was never establishing a “James Carville” type of media responder; not to “demonize” opposition media as Carville did, but rather, to correct the daily lies and misstatements of the MSM.
Liberals will continue to rely upon “the longer a lie is told, it will eventually become true” strategy as long as they aren’t called on it.
OOPS, No Spell or Fact checker!
What did those fish do to be wrapped in that rag of a paper?
They were CONSERVATIVE FISH!
No wonder the fish stink so bad.
The practice of “mistankenly” misleading headlines, usually above the fold in 72 point type, followed days later, by the “correction,” buried on page E51 in mouse print is no different than the classic “so, senator, when did you stop beating your wife” style of reporting.
It was a deliberate attack on the White House. Any fool (Jayson Blair anyone?) would know better, and a reporter, presuming that they were actually reporting, would know better.
If the newspapers were sincerely contrite and responsible (hold your laughter) for these “mistakes,” they would print the correction/retraction in the same place/typeface/type size as the original story. The correction is as, no, make that more, important than the original misreported story, and deserves equivalent coverage.
Yeah, I’m not holding my breath either. Especially from the “paper of record.”
This is misdirection. The substance of the NYTimes article is true — the White House did not challenge it. The substance is that White House lawyers discussed destroying the tapes several times. This calls into question White House claims that the decision was made by the CIA without consulting the White House.
It also makes the White House liable for violating a judge’s order to preserve the tapes. In short, crimes were committed and the White House was in the thick of it.
With all of this, the White House is happy to distract attention from the evidence of criminality to a misworded sub headline. It was the sub-headline, not the headline, they took issue with.
On December 19th, 2007 at 6:49 pm, lgm said:
The tapes in question were destroyed years ago, after consultation with Congress.
??????
Where do you put your corrections?
Liberal man says: Halliburton controls the Media!
How dare anybody let the Jayson Blair Times be accused of an ideological agenda! Their headlines are like their staff…everything is merit based.
(Removing Skoal Bandit…no wait, that’s my tongue…from my cheek)
eric
aka the Tygrrrr Express
LGM, They were not at Gitmo where the judge’s order applied. YOu lose, insert quarter and play again.
LOL #8 and 9
The state of the MSM is pitiful.
LGM:
I have watched for 7 years as liberals have taken the most inconsequential pieces of evidence and trumpeted them to the skies as proof of an impeachable offense.
You are wildly exaggerating. It is a matter of dispute exactly what the judge in the Moussai case was asking for in regard to taped interrogations. And the fact that the WH had discussions with the CIA - probably the CIA asking if they could destroy the tapes - and that the WH turned them down would, in the world where the sane inhabit, tend to exonerate the Administration of complicity -
Unless, of course, you are making the arguement that the WH was telling the CIA one thing while “winking” that they should go ahead and do another.
Only on some planet where the criminally insane rule would that be considered evidence of “obstruction.”
I happen to believe the CIA was wrong to destroy the tapes. And as far as the Rodriguez “fall guy” theory allow me to let you in on a little secret; sometimes it is only one guy who screws up.
I saw a headline at Memorandum from a liberal blog that this case was a “Watergate” moment for the Bushies. Do you people live on the same planet as the rest of us? We heard the same thing when liberals went on a witchhunt to find out who Jeff Gannon slept with in the WH (Rove? Bush?) to get a press pass. Ditto the 2 dozen WH aides who were going to be frogmarched off to jail as a result of “outing” Valerie Plame.
You guys truly are rank fools. Blowing things out of all proportionate reality is par for the course for liberals. And until you stop exaggerating, twisting the facts, and just making stuff up in order to “prove” your utterly preposterous and fantastical conspiracy theories, no one will take you seriously.
The correction will be in 2 point type.
Methinks they were red herrings. It would be fitting.
Of course, it’s Boooosh’s fault that the NY Slimes printed this to begin with. They needed more fodder for MoveOn ad revenue.
Now it’s Boooosh’s fault that the NY Slimes corrected it.
/sarc
Jerks!
Seems I’ve heard something similar from CBS & Dan Rathergate. LGM’s logic is that if no one challenges a fools allegations, what the fools says is true. Proverbs gives many warnings about answering a fool. NYT=fool
We are being sucked into the black hole of euopean social politics.
The left will not rest until we trump the EU.
The NY Times is the least of our problems. Our schools are killing our country’s future by polluting our children’s minds.
My son is 26 and I figure that I’ve got another four or five years to go before he can finally balance rhetoric and truth.
For every descent public school teacher you may know, there are another 100 who hate this country and want socialism as the new bedrock of American society.
Hillary Clinton summed up what is wrong with the school system, the liberal media, and public education with her so called holiday campaign ad.
Regarding the White House response to the NYT. Bravo!
It’s about time that Bush stopped turning the other cheek.
LGM what would your methods of extracting information that could save cities that house the NYTimes? I have yet heard any alternatives by the NYTimes, Demos, Kerry, Clinton, Edwards and the rest of McGovern crowd? This may shock you but most of the Yanks do not desire to live under Muslim law. I wish your liberal friends would give us some alternatives to the war on terror if you don’t like the present methods. Another thing talking to the terrorists won’t do any good because they do not compromise their beliefs will not stop until they have total control. Is this what you want? Please put forth your alternatives soon so we can decide between the GOP and the Demo nominee.
Ditto #25 - especially the last line!
Restoring Sanity in America
one blog blow at a time.
The beauty of the MSM not taking the Serious Blogsphere seriously is that it walked up behind them & *blamo*.
Good bye NYSlimes….just die & go away.
signed: ‘I LOVE AMERICA!’
& most of us YANKS didn’t dig slavery either.