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Thursday, December 27, 2007

New York Times retracts its smear of Ron Paul



Virginia Heffernan Trash Dispatch: Digger “Rocket99″ reports; “After receiving hundreds of complaints the NYT was forced to retract its hit piece on Ron Paul stating “The original post [the hitpiece] should not have been published with these unverified assertions and without any response from Paul.”"

The Trash Dispatch has investigated and found that “The Medium”, a New York Times Blog, did in fact publish an article By Virginia Heffernan (blogger), for which, the New York Times is now Begging forgiveness.

The New York Times describes;

About The Medium

With television and the Internet converging at last, who’s going to watch all this here-goes-nothing online video? Everything from political propaganda videos to pseudo-candid celebrity rants seems to expect an audience. “The Medium” will find, review and make sense of all those senseless new images: web video, viral video, user-driven video, custom interactive video, embedded video ads, web-based VOD, broadband television, diavlogs, vcasts, vlogs, video podcasts, mobisodes, webisodes, mashups and more.

And;

About Virginia Heffernan

Virginia Heffernan is The Medium columnist for The New York Times Magazine. Previously she spent four years as a television critic for The New York Times newspaper. Before coming to the newspaper, she wrote for Slate, and before that she was an editor at Harper’s and Talk magazines. In 2005, she published a comic novel, “The Underminer,” which she wrote with Mike Albo.Trash Dispatch: “The Underminer”, probably describes Virginia Heffernan and The Medium, better than their own “About” pages, nevertheless, both appear to be nothing more than a “Trash Dispatch!”

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