House Majority Whip shot at congressional baseball field

[Dill]

(06-16-2017, 05:58 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Sorry, no.  The NYT's itself acknowledged the information was false, so this isn't in dispute.  As to the author, if they didn't know whether the information was true or false they should engage in something called fact checking.  After all, that is their job.  So your defense of them is that the were either willfully malicious or monstrously incompetent.  Neither speaks well for the author or the NYT's for failing to catch the error.

Well, in one corner we have evidence, in your corner we have conjecture.  It doesn't take much detective work to spot the difference.

My "defense" of them is that they made an error and corrected it. You apparently agree, but need more colorful descriptive terms--"willfully malicious or monstrously incompetent."  And they did catch the error, hence the correction.

Looks like "conjecture" in both corners, if we are talking about the editors and Vlad, though only one of us recognizes this.