Friday, June 18, 2004
We Get Results (Well, Sort Of)
The New York Times, which was among several news sources who misquoted and distorted General Mattis' remarks a few weeks ago, has published a correction:
I am rapidly losing any respect I once had for the Times.
The problem with the original article was never that Mattis said "marines" instead of "men." I couldn't give a rat's ass.
The problem with the Times article was that Mattis' remarks were taken wholly out of context. The Times article used the "I don't have to apologize for the conduct of my marines" quote in the context of the 'wedding party' incident, and thereby conveyed the impression, falsely, that General Mattis was being cavalier and callous about those deaths.
That was wrong.
Mattis was clearly referring to his Marines in Fallujah, not to troops involved in the wedding party, and was drawing a contrast between the conduct of his Marines in Fallujah and the shameful and criminal conduct of insurgents there--an important contrast which was wholly lost in the Times' article.
This so-called "correction" is a whitewash. A farce. It serves only to perpetuate the lies promulgated in the first article.
I really think the Times is covering for itself here.
You can send the public editor a note, telling him that we noticed, by writing Dan Okrent or Arthur Bovino at public@nytimes.com.
And to let us know when the Times finally develops a commitment to accuracy.
Because it ain't in evidence so far here.
Splash, out
Jason
An article on May 21 about fighting in Iraq quoted two comments incorrectly from a news conference by Maj. Gen. James Mattis, the Marine commander in the desert area near the Syrian border where an American missile strike killed civilians at what some Iraqis described as a wedding party. Denying that account, General Mattis said, "Let's not be naïve, let's leave it at that" (not "Let's not be naïve, bad things happen in wars") and "I don't have to apologize for the conduct of my marines" (not "for the conduct of my men").
I am rapidly losing any respect I once had for the Times.
The problem with the original article was never that Mattis said "marines" instead of "men." I couldn't give a rat's ass.
The problem with the Times article was that Mattis' remarks were taken wholly out of context. The Times article used the "I don't have to apologize for the conduct of my marines" quote in the context of the 'wedding party' incident, and thereby conveyed the impression, falsely, that General Mattis was being cavalier and callous about those deaths.
That was wrong.
Mattis was clearly referring to his Marines in Fallujah, not to troops involved in the wedding party, and was drawing a contrast between the conduct of his Marines in Fallujah and the shameful and criminal conduct of insurgents there--an important contrast which was wholly lost in the Times' article.
This so-called "correction" is a whitewash. A farce. It serves only to perpetuate the lies promulgated in the first article.
I really think the Times is covering for itself here.
You can send the public editor a note, telling him that we noticed, by writing Dan Okrent or Arthur Bovino at public@nytimes.com.
And to let us know when the Times finally develops a commitment to accuracy.
Because it ain't in evidence so far here.
Splash, out
Jason
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