TPMMuckraker Craig Whitney: June 2009
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NYT: We Made Big Mistakes On Front-Page Gitmo Story, But We Did Not Get Spun
Justin Elliott | June 5, 2009, 3:54PM
The New York Times has published a lengthy "Editors' Note" rolling back key claims in its front-page story on Guantanamo "recidivism" last month, and the paper's Washington bureau chief concedes it wouldn't have been a Page 1 story if the paper realized the errors in the story when it ran.
"It's something that we thought we needed to explain to readers to amplify the story and to correct something we got wrong," Dean Baquet, NYT Washington bureau chief, told TPMmuckraker.
Baquet added that, given the factual errors, "I'm not sure it would have led the paper" but still believes that the piece was "a legitimate news story."
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