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ADKbrown	Post subject: That criminal Bush Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 9:28 am
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1286 Location: Saranac Lake, N.Y.	The NYT story on Web today quotes Saddam Hussein at his arraignment: "You know that this is all a theater by Bush, to help him win his election." <p>I found this curious, because yesterday the NYT story had him calling Bush a "criminal" in this quote. So I checked the Post story today, and it quotes Saddam thus: "Everyone knows this is theater by [President] Bush, the criminal, in an attempt to win the election." <p>Can anyone explain why the Times deleted the reference to Bush as a criminal? <p>The discrepancies in the two quotes are especially curious in that the Times reporter was acting as a pool reporter for print media.
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ADKbrown	Post subject: Re: That criminal Bush Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 4:52 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1286 Location: Saranac Lake, N.Y.	To follow up: I posed the same question to the Public Editor at the Times. Weeks later, on July 27, the Times ran a correction, although I don't know if my query prompted it. The Public Editor's assistant e-mailed me the text of the correction:<p>"A front-page article on July 2 about the opening of criminal proceedings against Saddam Hussein in Iraq omitted two words in a translated comment from Mr. Hussein about the legitimacy of the court. Mr. Hussein said, "You know that this is all a theater by Bush the criminal to help him win his election. " (He did not say just "theater by Bush.") This correction was delayed for a check of various unofficial transcripts."<p>Since the Times's original version of the story on the Web included the omitted words, I asked how they happened to be excised later on. I was told that it was an oversight and that there were no official transcripts.<p>I find the correction poorly worded. It's not exactly clear what words were omitted.
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Re: That criminal Bush Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 5:02 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	Of course it isn't an "oversight" if something like that gets cut out.
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Jackie	Post subject: Re: That criminal Bush Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 5:09 pm
Joined: Sun Mar 02, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 598 Location: The Herald in Everett, WA	Geez, how long does it take to check "unofficial transcripts"? I managed to do it the same night, on deadline.
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