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Twice this year we’ve written about the Los Angeles Times’ Swati Pandey (here, and here) and what we felt was her superficial and incorrect research. It looks like she’s moved on, but her luck hasn’t changed. Today Mickey Kaus is busting her and a co-author for a month-old New York Times’ op-ed that stated that Pakistani madrassas do not breed terrorists. Kaus writes:
Since the op-ed was written, the London subway has been bombed and it’s been reported that at least one of the four bombers visited a madrassa in Pakistan. (Two of the other three also visited Pakistan, though it’s not clear from news reports what they did there). Now the suspected ringleader of the plot has reportedly been arrested a) in a madrassa b) in Pakistan c) with “explosives and a large sum of money.”
Sheesh. We can be wrong too, but we don’t get to do it in two of the country’s major newspapers!
(Some would say that being wrong is perfect training for the NYT op-ed pages)
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July 24th, 2005 at 12:23 am
I’m Sorry You Think I Said Something Wrong A hat tip to Patterico who noted the LAT practice of burying their corrections in places where readers of the original stories won’t necessarily see them. Our Offer : You Get To Be A Guest Blogger At Independent Sources, We Get To Be Wrong In The NYT A hat tip to Mickey Kaus for busting Swati Pandey for a month-old New York Times op-ed that stated that Pakistani madrassas do not breed terrorists. (Given the