{"id":337221,"date":"2017-11-30T05:52:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T04:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nyt-corrects-its-ed-herman-obit\/"},"modified":"2017-11-30T05:52:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T04:52:34","slug":"nyt-corrects-its-ed-herman-obit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nyt-corrects-its-ed-herman-obit\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Corrects Its Ed Herman Obit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5593661\" style=\"max-width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5593661\" src=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/FAIR-Ed-Herman.png\" alt=\"FAIR: NYT\u2019s Obit for Ed Herman Requires a Correction\" width=\"350\" height=\"311\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>FAIR.org<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/home\/nyts-obit-for-ed-herman-requires-a-correction\/\">11\/25\/17<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>After hearing from FAIR activists (Action Alert, <a href=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/home\/nyts-obit-for-ed-herman-requires-a-correction\/\">11\/25\/17<\/a>), the <strong>New York Times<\/strong> has corrected its obituary of media critic Edward Herman (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/21\/obituaries\/edward-herman-dead-critic-of-us-media-and-foreign-policy.html\">11\/21\/17<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An earlier version of this obituary referred incorrectly to Dr. Herman and Noam Chomsky\u2019s arguments about genocide in Rwanda and, during the Bosnia war, Srebrenica. Those arguments did not appear in their book <em>Manufacturing Consent<\/em>, which was published several years before those genocides.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>FAIR thanks the activists who contacted the <strong>Times<\/strong>, and the <strong>Times<\/strong> for correcting the record.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><br \/>\nThis piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission from <a href=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/home\/nyt-corrects-its-ed-herman-obit\/\">FAIR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIR.org (11\/25\/17) After hearing from FAIR activists (Action Alert, 11\/25\/17), the New York Times has corrected its obituary of media critic Edward Herman (11\/21\/17): An earlier version of this obituary referred incorrectly to Dr. Herman and Noam Chomsky\u2019s arguments about genocide in Rwanda and, during the Bosnia war, Srebrenica. Those arguments did not appear in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-337221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}