[NYTr] FAIR: NY Times Corrects Story Claiming "Antiwar" Protestors
 
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:41:30 -0400


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FAIR: NY Times Keeps Mixing Up Homophobic Baptists, anti-war Movement
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FAIR - Aug 31, 2007
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3170

FAIR Activism Update
Times Corrects Obama Anti-War Smear

8/31/07

The New York Times posted the following correction on its website
today, responding to a problem pointed out in a FAIR Action Alert
(8/24/07):

An article published on NYTimes.com on Aug. 21 about Senator Barack
Obama's appearance before a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention
paraphrased incorrectly from his comment about protests at military
funerals. He said: "When men and women who died in service to this
country are laid to rest, there must be no protests near the funerals.
It's wrong and it needs to stop." He did not say that it was wrong for
"anti-war activists" to protest at military funerals.

FAIR would like to thank the activists who wrote to the Times regarding
this issue. 

The FAIR alert should have more clearly described the piece in question
as an article on the Times website. (A subsequent version in the print
edition of the paper did not include the language about anti-war
activists.) Also, the alert's first reference to Barack Obama
misspelled his first name.

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