Here is a correction from today's New York Times:
"An article on Sunday about Campbell Brown’s role as Facebook’s head of news partnerships erroneously included a reference to Palestinian actions as an example of the sort of far-right conspiracy stories that have plagued Facebook. In fact, Palestinian officials have acknowledged providing payments to the families of Palestinians killed while carrying out attacks on Israelis or convicted of terrorist acts and imprisoned in Israel; that is not a conspiracy theory."
This correction tells us a great deal about the Times. Simply put, the reporter and the editors do not pay much attention to current events, the very news about which the Times supposedly reports. On March 23, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Taylor Force Act. That law requires the cessation of certain US foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority until such time as that authority stops making payments to terrorists who attack Israelis as well as pensions to the terrorists' families. Taylor Force was an American serviceman who was killed by terrorists while he was a tourist in Israel. Before the passage of the law, there were many articles, TV debates and the like about the effect such law would have and the efficacy of its passage. The idea that both the reporter and the editors involved in the original article had never heard that the Palestinians reward terrorists and their families is astounding.
The correction also tells us that the reporter and the editors are prepared to see Palestinians only as the victims of oppression and any criticism of them as nothing more than a conspiracy theory. Remember, the original article did not just dispute the accuracy of the actual fact of Palestinians rewarding terrorists, it called the very idea of such payments a "far=right conspiracy story". In other words, the idea was something that only a far-right crazy person would put forward in the view of the reporters and editors. Nevertheless, it was the truth and the fools at the Times couldn't even conceive of that possibility.
"An article on Sunday about Campbell Brown’s role as Facebook’s head of news partnerships erroneously included a reference to Palestinian actions as an example of the sort of far-right conspiracy stories that have plagued Facebook. In fact, Palestinian officials have acknowledged providing payments to the families of Palestinians killed while carrying out attacks on Israelis or convicted of terrorist acts and imprisoned in Israel; that is not a conspiracy theory."
This correction tells us a great deal about the Times. Simply put, the reporter and the editors do not pay much attention to current events, the very news about which the Times supposedly reports. On March 23, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Taylor Force Act. That law requires the cessation of certain US foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority until such time as that authority stops making payments to terrorists who attack Israelis as well as pensions to the terrorists' families. Taylor Force was an American serviceman who was killed by terrorists while he was a tourist in Israel. Before the passage of the law, there were many articles, TV debates and the like about the effect such law would have and the efficacy of its passage. The idea that both the reporter and the editors involved in the original article had never heard that the Palestinians reward terrorists and their families is astounding.
The correction also tells us that the reporter and the editors are prepared to see Palestinians only as the victims of oppression and any criticism of them as nothing more than a conspiracy theory. Remember, the original article did not just dispute the accuracy of the actual fact of Palestinians rewarding terrorists, it called the very idea of such payments a "far=right conspiracy story". In other words, the idea was something that only a far-right crazy person would put forward in the view of the reporters and editors. Nevertheless, it was the truth and the fools at the Times couldn't even conceive of that possibility.
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