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NY Times Responds Again on Fallujah
Public editor’s second response contains factual errors

To paraphrase Clark Hoyt, if you’re going to defend the performance of a news organization, you at a minimum need to get your facts right.

In his second response to FAIR regarding the New York Times‘ review of the play Fallujah, Hoyt wrote:

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Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting: Update
NY Times Public editor sides with reporter’s dismissal

On July 18, New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt responded to FAIR’s June 11 Action Alert “Incendiary Weapons are No Allegation.” FAIR’s action alert took issue with a New York Times review (5/29/07) of the British play Fallujah, in which reviewer Jane Perlez called into question the “objectivity” and “authenticity” of the playwright, Jonathan Holmes, over “the scenes that deal with the use of napalm in Falluja, an allegation made by left-wing critics of the war but never substantiated.”

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