Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

We fell in love with the fact that we had gotten a member of ISIS who would describe his life in the caliphate and would describe his crimes,” New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet tells NPR in an interview on Thursday. “I think we were so in love with it that when when we saw evidence that maybe he was a fabulist, when we saw evidence that he was making some of it up, we didn’t listen hard enough.”

30 Replies to “Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors”

  1. Huh? A story and a man researched as rigorously Christopher Steele’s … dossier

    What could go wrong ?

  2. A true journalist. The narrative mattered so much he didn’t even bother looking for the truth.

    1. And what do you suppose the narrative was? Let me guess … that Trumps claim to have eradicated ISIS was false? What better way to say this than with an “actual member of ISIS” who tells tales of his horrific deeds? Yep. Orange Man Bad. By Any Means Necessary … even lies

    2. This whole article was about two alleged journalists who were in love with their alleged work, so they gave it a pass and didn’t bother to vet their blabbermouth liar.

      Love is blind eh?

      A tale of two lazy journalists.

  3. Gasp, this is probably the first time the NYT has ever admitted their stories might not be factually correct, but excitingly crafted stories sell newspapers, so lets keep the truth fungible eh.

    There is also the fact that living the excitement through a vicarious relationship is far safer than actually being the hero or anti hero. Only this time they were doing it through another person having his own vicarious experience, probably from a fictitious character in a fictitious book about terrorism.

    However, I am curious about him being charged for lying, and being accused by Canadian authorities of fomenting a terrorism hoax. He basically sold himself as the main character of a fictitious story. Don’t authors and storytellers do that all the time? Not only that, but it was in the US, not Canada, so why are the Canadian authorities charging him, and not the US authorities?
    Maybe the PM was planning to give him a few million bucks, and was embarrassed to find it was a hoax story.

    1. Someone counting how many posts until a real putz showed up….took 10, it will likely reset.

  4. On the other hand, publicly admitting one’s error is more than SDA has ever done in its 16-year history.

  5. The NYT journalist is a full blown Slut, continuing in that career they become a useless C*NT.. Sled dog..

    Look @ CBC… all are sluts, or freaks with the wrong plumbing….

    JMHO

  6. The New York Times has basically been fiction for years now. Between their anonymous sources and fake leaks we all know it. They just got caught this time.

  7. “Caliphate represents the modern New York Times,” Sam Dolnick, an assistant managing editor, said in unveiling the project. “It’s ambitious, rigorous, hard-nosed reporting combined with first-rate digital storytelling. We’re taking our audience to dangerous places they have never been, and we’re doing it with more transparency than we ever have before.”

    I’m sure they’ll be returning that Peabody award any day now

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