US - New York Times credibility problems continue

How can anyone trust this newspaper anymore?

Fake stories on Abu Ghraib, Iraq and Katrina as well as mis-leading stories on the NSA wiretap non-scandal (see here).

Back in Feb of this year, the NYT alleged that Hispanics were "cannon fodder" in the Iraq war just as they were in Vietnam. But just like most of NYT's stories, you can't believe them.

NYT: "An article on Feb. 9 about the military's recruitment of Hispanics referred incompletely to the belief of some critics that Hispanics in the Iraq war and blacks in the Vietnam War accounted for a disproportionate number of casualties. Statistics do not support the belief."

Got that? The Times didn't bother to do the math, they were quite happy to publish the beliefs of "some critics". Now, who might that be? The Times itself most likely.

This is now April. So what took so long to correct this "error"?

"...the correction was delayed for research after a lapse at The Times."

Yeah, a lapse of credibility.
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