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To: LindyBill who started this subject7/8/2004 7:15:39 PM
From: LindyBill   of 793868
 
Los Angeles Times Corrects False Statement Regarding Bremer Farewell Speech
As regular readers know, I have been flogging the Los Angeles Times for falsely reporting on the front page of its Sunday edition that L. Paul Bremer III had left Iraq "without even giving a final speech to the country." (For previous posts, see here, here, and here.)

The Times today issues the following correction:

Iraqi handover — A news analysis about the new Iraqi government in Sunday's Section A stated that outgoing administrator L. Paul Bremer III did not give a farewell speech to the country. His spokesman has since said that Bremer taped an address that was given to Iraqi broadcast media. The spokesman said the address was not publicized to the Western news media.
I'm pleased that the paper has acknowledged its error. However, it is not an excuse that the speech was "not publicized to the Western news media." Bremer's farewell address had been common knowledge among readers of internet blogs since at least June 30, when I wrote about Tim Blair's criticism of the Washington Post for making the same exact error. Yet the front-page L.A. Times news analysis appeared on July 4 -- 4 days later.
Moral: someone at every major paper should be reading blogs. If they did, the papers might learn different points of view. They might pick up stories that are "not publicized to the Western news media."
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