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To: Win Smith who started this subject11/26/2002 11:52:00 AM
From: mistermj  Read Replies (1) of 603
 
New York Times: In-Depth
The newspaper of record has missed its cue.

November 2002 - On a visit to Saudi Arabia, The New York Times' Maureen Dowd questioned the anti-Israel slant of Saudi education ("Under the Ramadan Moon" - Nov. 6). Dowd spoke with Saudi deputy ministers of education, and reports:

"They were defensive about American suspicion of the religious hard-liners' influence on boys' schooling. 'Why don't you go to Israeli math textbooks and see what they're saying -- If you kill 10 Arabs one day and 12 the next day, what would be the total?' demanded one deputy." nytimes.com

Of course, no such Israeli textbook exists. It's bad enough that the Saudi media prints blood libels against the Jews. But for The Times to be echoing these claims, allowing such inflammatory statements to go unquestioned, unchallenged and uncriticized, points to one of two problems: Either Dowd actually believed the libel, and ignored the basic journalistic rule of fact-checking. Or Dowd knew that the Saudi claim was false, but reported it anyway, thus being guilty of gratuitously spreading a vicious, baseless lie.

Either way, The New York Times has misled countless thousands of readers.

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