NY Times buried correction of false anecdote supporting "cool" Clinton-Obama relationship, leaving questions unanswered

Published: August 9, 2007, 3:10 pm

Tags: the new york times, 2008 elections, barack obama, government elections, hillary clinton, media, propaganda noise machine

In its August 9 edition, The New York Times issued a correction to an August 7 article by reporter Jeff Zeleny, noting that an anecdote that Zeleny had used to support his thesis that "Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have barely spoken to each other -- at least in any meaningful way -- for months" was false. The article, headlined "Competitors, Once Collegial, Now Seem Cool," asserted that "after the State of the Union address, the two senators found themselves doing back-to-back interviews on CNN. Mr. Obama went first, with Mrs. Clinton pacing a few feet away. Finally, an aide escorted her completely around the rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building, avoiding walking directly by Mr. Obama." In fact, according to the correction, "Mrs. Clinton took a circuitous route past Mr. Obama not to avoid him, but to accommodate a television producer." While the false anecdote has been removed from the online edition of the article, and the correction has

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