April 03, 2004

Blogs: The Last Line of Defense
Posted by Jon Henke

Earlier this week, I blogged about a New York Times story which I wrote was "misrepresenting a quote in a way that makes the Bush administration look bad". The story claimed Inspector Kay....

"...said that American officials were "almost all wrong, probably" in assessing before the war that Mr. Hussein's government possessed illicit weapons."
As I pointed out, what he actually said was that the entire world was "almost all wrong, probably". So, I sent a letter to the Public Editor requesting a correction.

Well, let's give them credit. They made the correction.

Correction: April 3, 2004, Saturday

An article on Wednesday about testimony by the new chief weapons inspector for Iraq, Charles A. Duelfer, who said the American search for unconventional weapons remained a tangle of mysteries, referred incorrectly to a comment by his predecessor, David Kay, at the time of his resignation. Referring to a number of countries, Mr. Kay said that in believing before the war that Iraq possessed illicit weapons, "we were all wrong, probably." He did not say all American officials were wrong.

The blogosphere: just one more layer of editorial oversight.

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