Today is the first day of the season so I will use a baseball analogy, Greyhawk at Mudville Gazette knocked this one out of the park. He provides the latest evidence in the case against The New York Times. Is this type of mistake a symptom of the environment, sloppy or agenda driven journalism? Greyhawk busts em, you decide.
New York Times, March 27: 30 Beheaded Bodies Found; Iraqi Death Squads Blamed
BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 26 â?? The bodies of 30 beheaded men were found on a main highway near Baquba this evening, providing more evidence that the death squads in Iraq are becoming out of control.
April 2: Press Briefing from Iraq
Q About — on the news that we heard this week of a number of headless bodies being found along a road in Baghdad. I was wondering what more you could tell us about that, what you know about the victims, and who the perpetrators were?
GEN. THURMAN: Okay. I did understand that question, and what I would tell you — we have not confirmed that report. We went to multiple sites to look for the 32 headless bodies that was reported to our headquarters, and we did not find anything; nor did any of the local citizens that were in these areas could verify that anybody had ever been in there. So I look at that report as completely false right now.
No correction from the paper of record, just a mention, buried in paragraph 17,
Earlier reports of 30 beheaded bodies found in that area were wrong, the Interior Ministry official said.
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HT: Instapundit