US - New York Times admits it failed to research

This isn't surprising, is it.

NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Times acknowledged in Saturday's editions that it incorrectly identified an Iraqi man in a front-page story as the hooded figure shown in a photograph from Abu Ghraib prison that became an icon of abuse by American captors.

An editor's note accompanying a front-page story on Ali Shalal Qaissi said the paper "did not adequately research Mr. Qaissi's insistence that he was the man in the photograph."

Do tell.

But as is the case with MSM these days, they go with the "fake but accurate" theme.

The Times said Qaissi and his lawyers maintain that he was photographed in a similar position and shocked with wires, but that Qaissi acknowledged he is not the man in the specific photograph.

Well that's ok then.

Here's the NYT backpeddling.
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