Comments on: From Deep Throat To Deep Doo Doo

by: aaron

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:32:41 +0000

Jack, I agree. I wonder if Kevin Drum has a policy like that?

by: Jack Lacton

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:07:10 +0000

My view on corrections is that it should be part of the media’s license to publish the correction on the same page, in the same font size as the original mistake. That would stop the deliberate mistakes that misguide people with the correction on page 23 in 4 point font.

by: Rich

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:02:41 +0000

Seems the NY Times has the same slint http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/10/opinion/10sat1.html

I wonder if there will be a corrections from them

by: Kit Winterer

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:06:13 +0000

Do they even have editors? If not, admit it and fire reporters; if so, fire editors. Either way at least WaPo need not wonder about why they’re lost the trust of their readers. . . which other stories were not so easy for everyman to investigate? A paper whose ‘news’ is bogus isn’t very valuable.

by: TallDave

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:26:39 +0000

Anyone else starting to wonder how big the intersection between DU/DKos and MSM actually is?

It’s getting scary out there. Even when they’re called on this stuff, I don’t sense any regret.

by: Anil Petra

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:24:47 +0000

The Post can only aspire to match the checks and balances and quality control evident in the blogophere.

by: tree hugging sister

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:48:37 +0000

That certainly wasn’t very intelligent of them.

May be Jon Kary kin halp thim ceep stuf strate.

by: richard mcenroe

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:33:09 +0000

Where was Bad Billy Rankin when we needed him?

by: Gabriel

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:11:23 +0000

The other half of this story is the comments section at the Washington Post. They are worse than DU. Honestly, it looks like the StormFront message boards on there.

by: Richard of Oregon

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:40:01 +0000

This is great! In just 24 hours, the retraction was made. I suppose that it would be too much to ask that we get a little more than “misattributed” as an explaination of how it happened. Not so long ago, there would have been no retraction. Maybe someday, editors can enforce standards that would make it nearly impossible for such a thing to happen.

by: william

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:34:44 +0000

Ditto anonomouscoward.

by: anonymouscoward

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:54:38 +0000

Don’t be so hard on The Post.

It’s editors have been left to hang in the wind by the biases of their own reporters.

They should fire the %*#$ bunch of ‘em.

by: goy

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:34:38 +0000

Another suicide bombing by the WaPo.

And surprise! The hack who wrote this also gave us our first look at Joe Wilson’s lies about Niger.

One more wave in the relentless tsunami of deceit the exempt media has had aimed at the Bush Administration since the beginning of recorded history (i.e., the day Al Gore failed to carry his own home state in the 2000 election).

BTW, both of the links above point to the same place.

by: John Fembup

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:26:56 +0000

Wait, wait -

So the Post originally reported that their source was an administration official?

And now it turns out their source was really a Democrat Senator?

This is even worse than getting the intelligence story wrong - which is bad enough.

The Post lied about its own sources (”misattributed” my foot!)

No liar only lies once.