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The correction that wasn't

The Spine reports on a correction that the NY Times recently made:

"Because of an editing error..." and deals with mistakes in an article about Tony Blair's agenda as Middle East envoy of the Quartet. Specifically, the two errors concerned the statistics of Palestinian refugees and when they became refugees. Apparently, the original errors exaggerated the refugee totals: the article said "millions," not, as was the case, "about 700,000;" and the timing of their departure, not afterward, but before and during the war.

The article has a note at the end that the errors were corrected. But how could anyone have made the errors in the first place? Isabel Kershner, as the Spine points out, wouldn't have made those errors. That means that the errors were inserted during the editing process.

Not exactly a confidence builder.

new york times, media bias, israel.