He opened his bit yesterday like this:
The current policy on correcting errors on the editorial and Op-Ed pages seemed clear when Gail Collins, the editorial page editor, announced it almost a year ago. Her declaration published on Oct. 2, 2005, stated: “We correct all errors, from heart-stoppingly egregious to sublimely insignificant, because we believe that The Times should take its reputation for accuracy seriously.”
While there have been corrections published during the past year, resistance remains. Two clear-cut errors in editorials and a mistake in an Op-Ed article have remained uncorrected for months. Each of the two errors in editorials has been brought to the attention of the deputy editorial page editor in at least three e-mails from me over the past four months.
He lists a few minor things, blatant errors, but nothing on the deliberate misrepresentation of obvious, black-and-white facts. The editorial linked says, for example, that the recently declassified NIE states that “the war in Iraq has greatly increased the threat from terrorism by ’shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives.’” WRONG.
QUOTE:
The Iraq conflict has become the cause celebre for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of US involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement. Should jihadists leaving Iraq perceive themselves, and be perceived, to have failed, we judge fewer fighters will be inspired to carry on the fight.
It lists Iraq as just one of four factors contributing to the global jihadist movement and nowhere says that the threat is increasing, let alone is “greatly increased.”
Get with it, Byron.
