Fact-Checking the NY Times, Update 1
Charles Johnson
Tue Jan 2, 2007 at 3:28 pm PST • Views: 232
Since there was nothing in their Corrections section about it today, I’ve emailed the New York Times requesting a correction for their false reporting about LGF in this article: Hard Choices Over Video of Execution. Specifically, this section:
No national American television organization has thus far allowed the moment of the drop to be shown.
But the same niceties were not observed on numerous Web sites, which have posted the complete video, including the moment that Mr. Hussein, noose around his neck, falls, and a close-up of his face afterward. Some prominent sites, like Google’s video site and the conservative blog Littlegreenfootballs.com, have posted the complete cellphone coverage of the execution, including the moment Mr. Hussein falls from view.
UPDATE at 1/2/07 3:49:56 pm:
The New York Times’ false report has now been repeated by the San Francisco Chronicle: Hundreds pay homage as Hussein’s body goes home. (Hat tip: Killgore Trout.)
Hussein’s burial came as a two-minute clip of his hanging was widely
circulated among Iraqis and on Internet sites such as Google Video and the
conservative blog Littlegreenfootballs.com.
And to recap, the cellphone video of Saddam Hussein’s execution was never posted at Little Green Footballs.
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