http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/5199/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/times-corrects-its-phony-abortion-story <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Public Editor Barney Calame gets results: &quot;The Times should have obtained the text of the ruling of the three-judge panel before the article was published, but did not vigorously pursue the document until details of the ruling were brought to the attention of editors in late November.&quot; </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Spurred by a strong piece last week by Public Editor Barney Calame (who actually used his perch to conduct a journalistic investigation), the Times issued in Sunday's paper a prominent <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/pageoneplus/corrections.html " target="_self">seven-paragraph correction </a>to last April's New York Times Magazine cover story by freelance reporter Jack Hitt, on the supposedly draconian abortion laws in El Salvador that resulted in a young woman, Carmen Climaco, being sentenced to 30 years in prison for an abortion that was ruled a homicide.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/times-corrects-its-phony-abortion-story" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch Abortion BarneyCalame CarmenClimaco ElSalvado JackHitt LifeSiteNews NewYorkTimes NYTimes TimesWatch TimesWatch.org Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:33:00 +0000 admin 5371 at http://archive2.mrc.org