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To: Sully- who wrote (23720)	11/4/2006 1:54:12 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Keep in mind that almost no one reads the Corrections page of their "newz"paper. The NYT knows this & allows BS like the following to happen all the time. The original, intentionally false story is what almost every reader will remember as rock solid fact. ** A Partial Acknowledgement of Error Power Line We noted yesterday that the New York Times, in reporting on John Kerry's gaffe, flatly misrepresented what Kerry said.** Which, of course, made it much easier to defend him and pretend that the story was really about the Republicans' "attack" on Kerry. We predicted that the paper would do a correction, but not until after the election. We were half right; the correction appeared this morning: <<< A Political Memo article yesterday about the fallout for Senator John Kerry over what he called a "botched joke" referred incompletely to the differences between prepared remarks and what he actually said about the Iraq war to students at Pasadena City College in California on Monday. Mr. Kerry not only dropped the word "us," but he also rephrased his opening sentence extensively and omitted a reference to President Bush. Mr. Kerry's aides said that the prepared text read: "Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush." What he said: "You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." >>> This is one of those corrections that fails to acknowledge how thoroughly the error infected the story; without the reporter's fabrication, the story really couldn't have been written the way the reporter wanted to write it. Plus, the correction implicitly assumes (as the original article did) that the Kerry camp was truthfully describing his prepared remarks, and the issue is the purported "differences" between the prepared text and Kerry's speech. powerlineblog.com powerlineblog.com nytimes.com