January 31, 2005

Slithering Times

Glenn Reynolds and his readers have traced changes in a New York Times story that originally included this hopeful paragraph near its beginning:

But if the insurgents wanted to stop people in Baghdad from voting, they failed. If they wanted to cause chaos, they failed. The voters were completely defiant, and there was a feeling that the people of Baghdad, showing a new, positive attitude, had turned a corner.

Go to Instapundit to see how this paragraph gradually slid further into the story and disappeared entirely from this morning's hard copy version.

I guess they were mindful of John Kerry's advice to not "overhype" the story.

— Winfield Myers

| Jan. 31, 2005 | 11:04 AM