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To: Sully- who wrote (13626)	8/30/2005 9:33:08 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 35834

KRUGMAN CAN'T GET IT RIGHT ...................................................... The Krugman Korrection, take 2 Powerline ^ \| August 30, 2005 \| Scott Johnson Last week we noted the case of the Krugman Korrection in "The Krugman Korrection" and "Into your life it will creep." Krugman appended his "corrections" to his column this past Friday, in part reiterating one of the key misrepresentations of his previous column. The case of the Krugman Korrection implicated the Star Tribune because the Strib had run Krugman's kolumn on August 22, after it had already been exposed as a fraud here by John and elsewhere by others. True to form, the Star Tribune korrects Krugman's kolumn by running his Times kolumn with the "corrections" appended, four days after they have run in the Times, in a weekday edition of the Star Tribune with half the circulation of the Sunday edition where Krugman's kolumn originally ran: "Why many aren't cheering about the economy." Bad as the Star Tribune is, the Portland Oregonian is even worse. Like the Star Tribune, it ran Krugman's kolumn on August 22. On Sunday, according to reader Jeff Kempe, the Oregonian ran Krugman’s Friday column, but without the "corrections" Krugman was forced to make. Kempe has written the Oregonian: One of the advantages, one would think, of being a second tier daily is the ability to vet for accuracy and edit stories and columns already run elsewhere. The Oregonian, after all, trumpets its full effort to be “accurate, fair and complete.” That’s why I was surprised a week or so ago to see a column by Paul Krugman – a partisan hack whose attention to the truth is so flawed that web sites have sprung up just to correct him – that was notable not only for its flagrant omissions but a couple of serious whoppers: that two news consortiums had concluded Gore would have won the 2000 election with a recount (exactly the opposite is true), and that there was a 98.7% voter turnout in Miami County, Ohio in the 2004 election (actually 72.2%). Both were used to try to prop up the completely ludicrous assumption of the column: that Republicans don’t win elections, they steal them. If the memory of the Oregonian editors is as poor as it apparently is, Krugman was blog-corrected within an hour of the column appearing on the NYT website; barring that a Google search could have produced the right answers, though it would have cost fifteen or so seconds. The Oregonian ran the column days later, unchanged, anyway. The Times’ Public Editor, forced by both Krugman and Maureen Dowd to oversee the op-ed pages as well as the news, asked Krugman for appropriate corrections, which he issued – though tepid – at the end of his Friday Times column. That Krugman column ran today (Sunday) in The Oregonian...without the corrections. So The Oregonian can edit columns before they run! Apparently, though, the mitigating factor is propagating an agenda, as opposed to anything to do with truth. No damned wonder you get 202 letters opposed to the war and only 23 in favor: Everyone but the Left’s True Believers and a few news junkies like me have abandoned you. “Accurate, fair and complete”? My tush. Both the Star Tribune and the Oregonian deserve special recognition in the lamestream media hall of shame.