Scott’s Blog Experience

We all make mistakes, right? And when we do, we have several options: we can hope no one notices; try and fix it before anyone notices; or apologize, and do our best to make it right.

The Times admitted it distributed an article in the March 18 edition of its Sunday Magazine, while knowing the story contained some glaring inaccuracies. The article was about women who served in Iraq, the sexual abuse some say they endured, and their struggles in reclaiming their pre-war lives. But one of the women profiled, who said she’d been raped twice and suffered brain damage when a roadside bomb exploded next to her Humvee, was never actually IN Iraq. She lied. And, there was no roadside bomb. Readers were left to wonder if there’d been any sexual assaults.

The newspaper knew about the mistakes on March 12, six days before the magazine was distributed, and 13 days before it published the correction. The magazine was printed on March 9 — three days before the lies were discovered — but there was still plenty of time to reprint it. The cost might’ve been huge, but wouldn’t it be worth it for a paper whose masthead proclaims “All the News That’s Fit to Print?”

It’s amazing to me, that these are the same people the blasts BUSH LIED ABOUT THE WAR. But they have no problem lying about a woman getting raped in the Military. Moreover, it is interesting how long they waited in light of how they treat others who “know” things but wait too long in the Time’s estimation to admit it all, isn’t it? Must be nice being a hypocrite.

Way to go New York Times. You get my Idiot of the Week Award. Just a note, this is where all the liberals get their news from.

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