The note cites five examples of “problematic articles” by date — two in the immediate Though the note doesn’t say so, those articles gave momentum to the conflation of “the Incorrect reports in the Times also gave misinformation about the existence of Iraqi weapons That sublime irony deepens rather than mitigates the errors, as does the fact that subsequent Of the 15 or so misleading reports that are listed online about alleged terrorist training Jack Shafer was correct yesterday when he reported in Slate that The New York Times was preparing an “Editors’ Note” reassessing “its pre-Iraq War coverage, particularly its coverage of weapons of mass destruction.” Finding < EM>the note online took a bit of searching on the Times Web site. But it appears in plain view on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-bD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nin Slate that The New York Times was preparing an “Editors’ Note” reassessing “its pre-Iraq War
\ncoverage, particularly its coverage of weapons of mass destruction.” Finding
\non the Times Web site. But it appears in plain view on the bottom of page 10 in the
\nprint edition:<\/P>
\nWe have examined the failings of American and allied intelligence, especially
\non the issue of Iraq’s weapons and possible Iraqi connections to international terrorists. We have
\nstudied the allegations of official gullibility and hype. It is past time we turned the same light on
\nourselves.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n
\naftermath of 9\/11, on Oct. 26,
\n2001<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> (about an alleged meeting in Prague between
\nan Iraqi agent and Mohammed Atta, the ringleader of the 9\/11 terrorists,
\nwhich was discounted a year later) and on Nov. 8,
\n2001<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> (about an alleged Iraqi terrorist training camp that has never
\nbeen verified).<\/P>
\n
\nwar on terror” with Saddam Hussein, which the Bush gang exploited to the max to justify
\nits invasion of Iraq. To this day, according to various polls, much of the American
\npublic still believes the idea that Iraq was guilty of involvement with the 9\/11 attacks.<\/P>
\n
\nof mass destruction, which should have been checked more carefully and challenged by editors
\nbefore being published, the note says. Much of that misinformation was supplied by
\nself-promoting Iraqi defectors lobbying for “regime change,” especially Ahmad Chalabi, whose
\nmotives should have opened their allegations to doubt. That misinformation was “often eagerly
\nconfirmed by United States officials convinced of the need to intervene in Iraq,” the note
\nadds.<\/P>
\n
\nreports acknowledging or clarifying some of the misinformed coverage were played much
\nless conspicuously than the original misinformation.
Shafer has been on the case for a
\nlong time, especially going after Judith Miller’s misleading reports about weapons of mass
\ndestruction. She was not mentioned by name in the editors’ note, however, nor were any other
\nreporters or editors. The note says more reporting will be done that is “aimed at setting the record
\nstraight.” It also offers readers a chance to delve more deeply into its erroneous coverage by
\ngoing to the Times Web site <\/FONT><\/EM>here<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>. <\/P>
\n
\ncamps and hidden weapons facilities, a quest for A-Bomb components and the
\ncontroversy surrounding it, and the search for weapons of mass destruction, nine were written or
\nco-written by Miller. Thus the headline on Shafer’s piece: “Judy’s Turn to Cry.”<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"