Wednesday, August 28, 2013

ha ha ha: New York Times on Syria coverage

From Michael:  "While reading this I couldn't help but think of of all the praise you heaped on Anne Barnard's 'flawless' Syria reporting...

"(In general, The Times’s coverage of Syria, in recent weeks, has avoided the mistakes made before the Iraq war — which were less the product of anonymous sources than of flawed reporting. And 
its editorial page has been appropriately cautious on the same subject.)"