America’s so-called “newspaper of record” must have set a record with this correction to a recent article on Walter Cronkite:
“An appraisal on Saturday about Walter Cronkite’s career included a number of errors. In some copies, it misstated the date that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed and referred incorrectly to Mr. Cronkite’s coverage of D-Day. Dr. King was killed on April 4, 1968, not April 30. Mr. Cronkite covered the D-Day landing from a warplane; he did not storm the beaches. In addition, Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, not July 26. ‘The CBS Evening News’ overtook ‘The Huntley-Brinkley Report’ on NBC in the ratings during the 1967-68 television season, not after Chet Huntley retired in 1970. A communications satellite used to relay correspondents’ reports from around the world was Telstar, not Telestar. Howard K. Smith was not one of the CBS correspondents Mr. Cronkite would turn to for reports from the field after he became anchor of ‘The CBS Evening News’ in 1962; he left CBS before Mr. Cronkite was the anchor. Because of an editing error, the appraisal also misstated the name of the news agency for which Mr. Cronkite was Moscow bureau chief after World War II. At that time it was United Press, not United Press International.”
It would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic.
Nah, it’s funny.
Source: New York Times via Powerline
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Sorry, I had to shake my head at this one because I thought the NYT was a parody now. Do some people actually take it seriously? Really? Wow, that is like thinking John Stewart is a real newsman I guess.
Did they hire their fact checkers from the Obama administration or Al Gore’s team of scientists?
In NYC for the Big East hoops tournament I walked past the NYT Building and there were three workers who came out of it just before me. So as I was a few steps behind I asked loudly how many stories they made up that day.
They did not appreciate that.
This is the kind of thing we’d like to get on video by our readers. On the street, videos like this of media, politicians, demonstators, etc. If you guys can tape these things, and they end up being fun/interesting to watch, send them to us.