New York Times: Woman we said served in Iraq was in Guam

Via a Pajamas Media post.

From the New York Times:

The cover article in The Times Magazine on March 18 reported on women who served in Iraq, the sexual abuse that some of them endured and the struggle for all of them to reclaim their prewar lives. One of the servicewomen, Amorita Randall, a former naval construction worker, told The Times that she was in combat in Iraq in 2004 and that in one incident an explosive device blew up a Humvee she was riding in, killing the driver and leaving her with a brain injury. She also said she was raped twice while she was in the Navy.

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Based on the information that came to light after the article was printed, it is now clear that Ms. Randall did not serve in Iraq, but may have become convinced she did. Since the article appeared, Ms. Randall herself has questioned another member of her unit, who told Ms. Randall that she was not deployed to Iraq. If The Times had learned these facts before publication, it would not have included Ms. Randall in the article.

Also, the New York Times couldn't find any record of a sexual assault against Randall.

Oops.

On a related note, Pajamas also reports on Arthur "Pinch" Sulzburger, Jr.

The $4.4 Million Publisher of the New York Times: That’s what Pinch is paid in salary and compensation. In the meantime, stock is half of what it was a few years ago, the company lost $543 million in 2006, Standard & Poor had put the Times’ BBB+ credit rating on CreditWatch as a result of the company trying to bribe stockholders by increasing the dividend by 31%. That Pinch, a genius.

Oops again.

Thanks for the link: Blogmeister USA

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