New York Post’s pathetic coverage - Inaccuracies about bombing pathetic

[Douglas Carpenter]

By Elias Groll

Foreign Policy

In all fairness, the paper has gotten some things right in its coverage. As Vanity Fair points out (for another priceless take on the paper’s editorial strategy, see the Onion):

The New York Post correctly reported that the Boston Marathon takes place in Boston, Massachusetts.

"Boston" is spelled correctly.

The current governor of the state is Deval Patrick

Participants in the Boston Marathon are, in American English, colloquially referred to as "runners."

So what’s going on at the Post? In its initial story on the attacks — the one that pegged the death toll at 12 — the paper has simply scrubbed its initial, inaccurate reporting from the story. The number "12" is nowhere to be found, nor is a death toll. Meanwhile, its story on the Saudi "suspect" remained online without a correction, editor’s note, or any kind of acknowledgement that it is completely false.

Massachusetts General Hospital is a medical facility.

a good article which give a run down on the outrageous mistakes made by the Post:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/56186415-82/post-boston-york-death.html.csp

[Buzz Clik]

1. A DU newbie (less than 25 posts) was all over the Saudi story.

Haven't seen much of him lately.