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Old 02-01-2008, 11:11 PM   #1
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Default NYT editing at its worst

I'm not a NYT basher. I read it daily, as it has the best international pages of any US paper or news source. The NYT editorial page is what it is; I don't read it much. But this cracks me up...

The story on the market bombings in Bagdad today is the fact that the suicide (not the right term here) bombers were mentally retarded or had DS. This has been the lead in the AP, CNN, etc., stories

In the NYT piece?

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Two female suicide bombers killed 65 people and wounded 149 at Baghdad pet markets on Friday, the twin blasts inflicting the bloodiest day on the Iraqi capital for six months.
What possible explanation is there to not only burry the lead, but to simply not report it? It's nowhere in the story.

From the AP
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BAGHDAD - Remote-controlled explosives strapped to two mentally handicapped women detonated in a coordinated attack on pet bazaars Friday, police and Iraqi officials said, killing at least 73 people in the deadliest day since the U.S. sent 30,000 extra troops to the capital this spring.
Weird. We don’t want to make ‘terrorists’ look bad.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/wo...nted=1&_r=1&hp

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22945797/
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/...ain/index.html
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Old 02-02-2008, 03:07 AM   #2
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