Showing posts with label mistakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mistakes. Show all posts
Time's Greatest Mistakes of the Past Two Years
Originally, this was to be a story on "Time magazine's greatest errors". After a little cursory research, it was determined that a book would have to be written to cover that subject.
Part of the reason is Time's been around since 1923. But a larger part of the problem can be traced to the moment when Time's management made the decision that liberal political shilling--whether for global warming, taxes, the latest Democrat "next big thing"--would be an acceptable substitute for objective news reporting.
So the subject was limited to the last couple of years, a more manageable topic.
NOVEMBER 2007: FISA Falsehoods by Joe Klein
Joe Klein tells outright falsehoods--we called them "lies" when I was a kid--about the FISA bill and misleads his readers about what the bill contains.
We don't often agree with Glenn Greenwald, but he does a pretty good job of calling Klein on it and then following up when Klein responds in typical MSM fashion.
On Wednesday, I documented that Joe Klein's column in this week's Time Magazine contained multiple false statements about the new FISA bill -- The RESTORE Act -- passed by House Democrats last week. The most obvious and harmful inaccuracy was his claim that that bill "would require the surveillance of every foreign-terrorist target's calls to be approved by the FISA court" and that it therefore "would give terrorists the same legal protections as Americans." Based on those outright falsehoods, Klein called the House Democrats' bill "well beyond stupid."
Greenwald documents the twists and turn that Klein embarks upon in order to avoid admitting he was wrong--or apologizing for it. Both concepts are foreign to most of the MSM: the substitution of faux facts to support the writer's viewpoint and apologies.
That day, Klein responded on his blog to what I wrote without acknowledging that he was doing so and without even telling his readers what the criticisms were. He insisted that everything he wrote was accurate ("as I reported, [the bill] obliquely gives foreign terrorists the same procedures as American citizens, if not the same rights"). He also said that the RESTORE Act was just "a partisan waste of time, fodder for lawyers and civil liberties extremists."
Yesterday -- Saturday night on Thanksgiving weekend -- Klein returned to the Time blog to write an extremely conditional, weaselly, self-justifying and partial "correction" to what he wrote in the print magazine.
This article also posted at DBKP.com: "Time: Little News, Plenty of Mistakes and Political Statements".
FEAR SELLS
DECEMBER 1979: The Cooling of America
Showing the same deep scientific understanding that Time exhibits in their many Global Warming articles of late, Time sounds the alarm for global cooling.
Charlotte Conservative assesses Time's climate change agenda--warming or cooling.
"Nothing says “liberal” like crowd control through paranoia."
Time obviously subscribes to the motto that "Nothing sells like a good climate panic".
Global Warming is the fear d'jour at Time; it one of Time's most popular cover stories: four in the last two years. Including this cover for the upcoming week.
WWII vets have already registered their outrage over another Time Photo Shop job.
When the oceans don't rise and the residents of coastal mega-cities have moved on to their next worry, Time's covers of the past two years will be reminders of what happens to a once-great magazine that replaces news with political activism.
Time has lost over half a million paid subscribers 1997-2007.
TIME's ASSESSMENT of REAGAN in 1987
Time breathlessly reports on Iran-Contra, asking the cover question about President Reagan, "Can He Recover?" Famously, and on cue, Time answered its own question then with a "NO!"
Reagan did just fine: Reagan is considered one of the Top Ten Greatest Presidents in almost every historian's list.
Time, on the other hand has watched it's subscription base and stock price go into steady decline since the Reagan years. It recovered briefly and it's high stock price (91.75 in 1999) has since tumbled. A share of Time stock can now be had for $14.70 today.
MARCH 2007: Reagan's PhotoShopped Tear
Time Photo Shopped a tear onto their cover picture of Ronald Reagan. It took the intrepid digger to find that the photo was a fake: the original picture of Reagan taken by one photographer; the tear added by another person at Time.
The March 2006 Time story about the U.S. Marines at Haditha was going to also be included, but Time was forced to make so many retractions and corrections to their original storyine of "evil U.S. soldiers massacring innocent civilians", that this particular subject would have made for a post of its own.
Atlas Shrugged asks a pertinent (rhetorical) question: "You think TIME will run another cover?"
The fact that the question is a rhetorical one helps explain why more and more people have abandoned Time as a reliable news source.
So these are our picks of Time's biggest mistakes of the past three years.
Impressive.
Were any stories left out that should have been included?
by Mondoreb
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* When a story goes terribly wrong
* amadeo
* Time magazine's FISA fiasco shows how Beltway reporters mislead the country
* Global Warming Strikes Back
* Time
* Time archives
* Timesonline
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NASCAR
1959 1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH).
WAR!
1862 Jefferson Davis, already the provisional president of the Confederacy, was inaugurated for a six-year term as president following his election the previous November.
1915 Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war.
1967 More than 25,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, aimed at smashing a Vietcong stronghold near the Cambodian border.
1991 Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hours to begin Kuwait withdrawal.
2007 Britain's Ministry of Defense announced that Prince Harry, a second lieutenant in the British army, would be deployed to Iraq. (Officials later reversed the decision because of insurgent threats.)
TERRORISM
1935 It became illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House.
1948 Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die.
1989 US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals".
2007 The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Iran had ignored a Security Council ultimatum to freeze uranium enrichment, and instead had expanded its program by setting up hundreds of centrifuges.
AHHHHH!
1989 Finland ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress.
WAGERS
1861 On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration.
SPUNKY
1920 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville CA).
NANNY STATE
1872 1st national convention of the Prohibition Party (Columbus OH).
FIVE & DIME
1879 1st 5¢ & 10¢ store opened by Frank W Woolworth in Utica NY.
FUR
1923 1st successful chinchilla farm in US (Los Angeles CA).
WOUNDED
1932 Purple Heart award re-instituted.
ESPANOL
1989 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award).
NYC MAYORS
1982 NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for New York governor (unsuccessful).
MARRIAGE
1992 Ed McMahon, 69, weds Pamela Hurn, 37.
1992 Rockers Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) & Courtney Love (Hole), wed.
1991 Actor Bill Bixby (57) weds Laura Michael (32).
FRIENDLY FIRE
1940 German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578.
1944 US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem & Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die.
POPCORN
1630 Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn.
UNREST
1983 Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India.
1995 Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters.
SUICIDE
1998 Sandy Hume correspondent (Fox News), commits suicide at 28.
GOP
1854 1st meeting of the Republican Party, Michigan.
1856 1st national meeting of the Republican Party (Pittsburgh).
MISTAKES
2003 Jesica Santillan, the teenager who'd survived a botched heart-lung transplant long enough to get a second set of donated organs, died two days after the second transplant at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina.
POLITICS
1819 Spain agreed to cede Florida to the United States under the Adams-Onis Treaty.
1865 Tennessee adopted a new constitution that included the abolition of slavery.
1889 President Cleveland signed an omnibus bill to admit the Dakotas, Montana and Washington state to the Union.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1924 President Coolidge delivered the first radio broadcast from the White House as he addressed the country over 42 stations.
SOCCER
1956 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht Portsmouth vs Newcastle United.
ASSASSINATION
1913 Francisco Indalecio Madero Mexican President at 39, and Suarez, Mexican vice President, assassinated in a military coup.
JEWS
1656 New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site.
1775 Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland.
1941 I G Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp; Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam.
MIRACLES
1980 the U.S. Olympic hockey team upset the Soviets at Lake Placid, N.Y., 4-3. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)
BEHEADED
1943 Hans Scholl German resistance fighter (White Rose), beheaded at 24. Sophie Scholl German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded.
CRICKET
1993 Vinod Kambli scores 224 vs England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours.
BORN
1732 The first president of the United States, George Washington, was born at his parents' plantation in the Virginia Colony.
1788 Arthur Schopenhauer Germany, philosopher (Great Pessimist).
1810 Frédéric F Chopin Polish/French pianist/composer.
1891 "Chico" Marx New York NY, actor/comedian (Marx Brothers, Animal Crackers).
BIRTHDAYS
Announcer Don Pardo is 90. Actor Paul Dooley is 80. Hollywood "ghost singer" Marni Nixon is 78. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., is 76. Movie director Jonathan Demme is 64. Actor John Ashton is 60. Actress Miou-Miou is 58. Actress Julie Walters is 58. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Julius Erving is 58. Actor Kyle MacLachlan is 49. Actress-comedian Rachel Dratch is 42. Actress Jeri Ryan is 40. Actor Thomas Jane is 39. Actress Tamara Mello is 38. Actress-singer Lea Salonga is 37. Actor Jose Solano is 37. Tennis player Michael Chang is 36. Actress Drew Barrymore is 33. Actress Liza Huber is 33. Singer James Blunt is 31. Actor Daniel E. Smith is 18.
DEATH
1998 Abraham A. Ribicoff, the former Connecticut governor and senator who served as President Kennedy's secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, died in Riverdale, N.Y., at age 87.
February 22, the 53rd day of 2008. There are 313 days left in the year.
compiled by Mondoreb
image: fireballroberts
Source:
* Today in History
* Today in history
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
SCIENCE
1962 Astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard the Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7.
WAR!
1942 Lieutenant E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers.
1944 During World War II, U.S. bombers began raiding German aircraft manufacturing centers in a series of attacks that became known as "Big Week."
1998 With the U.S. military poised to attack Iraq, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan began a final campaign to end the crisis over weapons inspections without bloodshed.
TERRORISM
1869 Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis.
1987 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City.
1994 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage.
2007 In a victory for President Bush, a divided federal appeals court ruled that Guantanamo Bay detainees could not use the U.S. court system to challenge their indefinite imprisonment.
DISASTER
1835 Concepción, Chile destroyed by earthquake.
1856 John Rutledge, Liverpool-New York steamer, hits iceberg; many die.
1917 Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die.
1988 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
2003 A fire broke out during a rock concert at The Station nightclub in West Warwick, R.I., killing 100 people and injuring about 200 others.
IMMIGRATION
1907 President Theodore Roosevelt signed an immigration act which excluded "idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded persons, epileptics, insane persons" from being admitted to the United States.
FALSE ALARMS
1971 The National Emergency Warning Center in Colorado erroneously ordered U.S. radio and TV stations off the air; some stations heeded the alert, which was not lifted for about 40 minutes.
RACE
1949 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal KS).
THAT SUCKING SOUND
1992 Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show.
GOLFERS
1927 Golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath.
PRO WRESTLING
1978 Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in New York, to become WWF wrestling champion.
OOPS!
1947 Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles CA.
VOLCANO
1943 New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (México).
DUELS
1839 Congress prohibited dueling in the District of Columbia.
WINE
1673 1st recorded wine auction held (London).
WIND
1861 Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm.
SURF
1902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco.
SCALPED!
1725 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for £100/scalp bounty.
SPORTS
1989 Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion because of the deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players.
NANNY STATE
1933 House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition.
PROGRESS
1792 President Washington signed an act creating the U.S. Post Office.
SCIENCE
1989 Total eclipse of the Moon.
PATENTS
1872 Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin.
1872 Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags.
1872 Silas Noble & JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine.
LEVIATHAN
1809 The Supreme Court, in United States v. Peters, ruled the power of the federal government is greater than that of any individual state.
MISTAKES
2003 A 17-year-old Mexican girl mistakenly given a heart and lungs with the wrong blood type received a second set of organs at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina; however, Jesica Santillan suffered brain damage and later died.
KILLED
1983 Ray Vitte actor (Doc, Cody-Quest), killed by police at 33.
ASSASSINATION
1919 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt.
IRAN
1921 Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran.
RESIGN
1938 Anthony Eden resigned as British foreign secretary following Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's decision to negotiate with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
SPIES
2003 Former Air Force Master Sgt. Brian Patrick Regan was convicted in Alexandria, Va., of offering to sell U.S. intelligence to Iraq and China but acquitted of attempted spying for Libya. (Regan was later sentenced to life without parole.)
JEWS
1941 Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation.
1941 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland.
1987 Soviet authorities released Jewish activist Josef Begun.
1995 Shlomo Averbach Rabbi, buried in Jerusalem, 250,000 attend.
BORN
1914 John Daly South Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line).
1967 Kurt Cobain rock vocalist (Nirvana)/husband of Courtney Love.
BIRTHDAYS
Fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt is 84. Actor Sidney Poitier is 81. Actress Marj Dusay is 72. Jazz-soul singer Nancy Wilson is 71. Singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie is 67. Hockey Hall-of-Famer Phil Esposito is 66. Movie director Mike Leigh is 65. Actress Brenda Blethyn is 62. Actress Sandy Duncan is 62. Rock musician J. Geils is 62. Actor Peter Strauss is 61. Rock singer-musician-producer Walter Becker (Steely Dan) is 58. Country singer Kathie Baillie is 57. Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is 54. Actor Anthony Stewart Head is 54. Country singer Leland Martin is 51. Actor James Wilby is 50. Rock musician Sebastian Steinberg is 49. Comedian Joel Hodgson is 48. Basketball player Charles Barkley is 45. Rock musician Ian Brown (Stone Roses) is 45. Actor French Stewart is 44. Actor Ron Eldard is 43. Model Cindy Crawford is 42. Actor Andrew Shue is 41. Actress Lili Taylor is 41. Singer Brian Littrell is 33. Actress Lauren Ambrose is 30. Actor Jay Hernandez is 30. Actress Majandra Delfino is 27. Singer-musician Chris Thile is 27. Actor Jake Richardson is 23. Singer Rihanna is 20.
DEATH
1790 Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II died.
1976 Kathryn Kuhlman religious leader/faith healer, dies.
1992 Dick York actor (Darren on Bewitched), dies of emphysema at 63.
February 20, the 51st day of 2008. There are 315 days left in the year.
compiled by Mondoreb
Image: wikipedia
Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
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