http://www.sunspot.net/news/opinion/oped/bal-pe.media28dec28,0,2948156.story?coll=bal-oped-headlinesBlair's serial fabrications. Raines' arrogant reign and forced resignation. Publisher Arthur Sulzberger's bullying The Washington Post into leaving their partnership at The International Herald Tribune.
Judith Miller's dubious weapons of mass destruction reports from Iraq - and the equally dubious ground rules under which she obtained those reports. Rick Bragg's lazy use of stringers to do his reporting for him.
Photographer Ed Keating leaving the paper under fire after having been accused of staging a photo of a boy with a toy gun. The Times obituary on Katharine Sergava, a singer and actress who appeared in the original production of Oklahoma! - and who was very much alive when The Times reported her death on Dec. 4.
The Times story that said a prominent Harlem, N.Y., photographer was so close to his twin brother that when the brother died of testicular cancer, he "had his own testicles removed" - except that, as a subsequent correction acknowledged, the first brother died of prostate cancer and the second brother did not have his testicles removed.
(NYT idiocy, alone, list at article)
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