Thursday, March 23, 2006

Another Bad Slip for 'NY Times': Katrina Victim Unmasked

How ironic.

For the second time in less than a week, The New York Times today admitted to a serious error in a story. On Saturday it said it had misidentified a man featured in the iconic "hooded inmate" photograph from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Today it discloses that a woman it profiled on March 8 is not, in fact, a victim of Hurricane Katrina--and was arrested for fraud and grand larceny yesterday.

Read the whole thing.

The thing that interests me is, how much false reporting went on before the internet and we were none the wiser?

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