Hillary slams N.Y. Times for ‘egregious’ errors

(POLITICO) The Hillary Clinton campaign sent a nearly 2,000-word letter to the executive editor of The New York Times this week expressing “grave concern” with a recent and controversial report relating to the former Secretary of State’s private email account.

“We remain perplexed by the Times’ slowness to acknowledge its errors after the fact, and some of the shaky justifications that Times’ editors have made,” Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri wrote in the letter to Dean Baquet, which the campaign forwarded to the On Media blog late Thursday night.

“I feel obliged to put into context just how egregious an error this story was,” Palmieri continued. “The New York Times is arguably the most important news outlet in the world and it rushed to put an erroneous story on the front page charging that a major candidate for President of the United States was the target of a criminal referral to federal law enforcement. Literally hundreds of outlets followed your story, creating a firestorm that had a deep impact that cannot be unwound. This problem was compounded by the fact that the Times took an inexplicable, let alone indefensible, delay in correcting the story and removing ‘criminal’ from the headline and text of the story.”

from PropagandaGuard https://propagandaguard.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/hillary-slams-n-y-times-for-egregious-errors/

from WordPress https://toddmsiebert.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/hillary-slams-n-y-times-for-egregious-errors/