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jct74
05-05-2014, 02:16 PM
4 YEARS LATER they still haven't corrected the fake quote from the Maddow interview on their website.



NYT corrects: Senator wore ‘herringbone, not houndstooth’

by Andrew Beaujon
Published May 5, 2014 3:27 pm

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul wore a powder-blue blazer, a pink tie and sunglasses when he hung with Rupert Murdoch at the Kentucky Derby. A description of that blazer in Jason Horowitz’s New York Times story about their man date has been updated, and a correction appended:


An earlier version of this article stated incorrectly the type of suit worn by Mr. Paul. It was herringbone, not houndstooth.

Reached by email, Times spokesperson Eileen Murphy said the correction did not come from either party in the story, but from “an alert reader who commented online.” A moderator alerted the Times’ standards editor, spawning the correction. “We’re lucky at The Times to have very smart, engaged readers,” Murphy said. (Here’s the comment, which like the correction, Alex Seitz-Wald spotted.)

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http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/250573/nyt-corrects-senator-wore-herringbone-not-houndstooth/



fake Maddow interview quote still uncorrected:


Asked by Ms. Maddow if a private business had the right to refuse to serve black people, Mr. Paul replied, “Yes.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/us/politics/21paul.html

jct74
05-05-2014, 02:25 PM
even the f-ing Rachel Maddow show called them out on it, and it STILL hasn't been corrected!!!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg5zOQ05b9E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg5zOQ05b9E

acptulsa
05-05-2014, 02:53 PM
It's the Times. Minutiae uber alles.