Sunday, May 30, 2004
You Supply the Phony Intelligence and We'll Supply the War
Daniel Okrent, the New York Times' "Public Editor" weighs in with a critique of the paper's coverage of the lead-up to the war in Iraq that's more direct--and more credible--than the paper's own editors wrote last Wednesday.
Okrent politely but firmly does not let the paper off the hook as easily as they did themselves. Citing specific examples of questionable assertions becoming reported facts in the Times, Okrent writes,
The question is: why?
Okrent politely but firmly does not let the paper off the hook as easily as they did themselves. Citing specific examples of questionable assertions becoming reported facts in the Times, Okrent writes,
...stories pushed Pentagon assertions so aggressively you could almost sense epaulets sprouting on the shoulders of editors.That, poor readers, is a gentleman's way of suggesting that the New York Times wanted the war with Iraq.
The question is: why?
