Times Apologizes for Rumor-Mongering

Times Runs With Unsubstantiated Pentagon Rumors, Later Apologizes

Last week, the Times was forced to run a rare and lengthy correction on a poorly reported and misleading front page story about the recidivist rate among released Guantanamo detainees. That article the paper's public editor Hoyt said in his correction:

...demonstrated again the dangers when editors run with exclusive leaked material in politically charged circumstances and fail to push back skeptically. The lapse is especially unfortunate at The Times, given its history in covering the run-up to the Iraq war.

Of course, holocaust denier and White Supremacist Robert Spencer is running with the original Times story and “forgets to mention” that the Times has apologized and retracted it.