'NYT' Correction: The Obamas Did Not Have a Big Fight, After All

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Editor & Publisher

NEW YORK What a difference a couple of little letters can make. In a front-page article on Thursday profiling Michelle Obama, New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Jeff Zeleny covered the tensions and aftermath surrounding the decision by her husband, Sen. BarackObama, to seek the presidency. The climax came in a fairly explosive quote, with a friend of the pair revealing that the couple had "fought long and hard about this decision before they made it.”

One problem: apparently the friend said "thought," not "fought."

The full correction -- it's not known if the interview was taped or why the Times changed its mind -- that ran on Saturday declares:

"A front-page article yesterday about the role that Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle, is playing in his presidential campaign rendered incorrectly a word in a quotation from Valerie Jarrett, a friend of the Obamas who commented on their decision that he would run. She said in a telephone interview, 'Barack and Michelle thought long and hard about this decision before they made it' — not that they 'fought' long and hard."




Read more: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003587908

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Sloppy, sloppy, journalism. And liberal media my butt!

[Jim Sagle]

1. Zeleny used to be a Republican hack who worked for the Chicago Trib. Obviously he hasn't changed.

[blm]

2. The corporate media will continue to target any Dem threat to the powerstructure

Funny how they could never find any occasion to twist a few letters to attack Lieberman and his ilk.

[HuffleClaw]

3. cute 'mistake'

and a highly calculated one at that i should imagine

[Robb]

4. Of course, the tape will never be made pubic

...I understand the recording was made while talking on a large, expansive dick with great views. :D

[BenDavid]

5. Listen, take this in the true light

it is written.....Just who do you think the racist gop would enjoy running against in 2008?
If a white gop candidate can win an election by putting out an ad 2 weeks before an election showing a white woman asking the dem candidate who happens to be black, to call her. The polls shifted back to the white candidate ....Oh, and this happened to Harold Ford Jr. in tenn. in 06......
I do thank you
BD

[Supersedeas]

6. when fact checking and spell checking collide -- WMD's or BLT's