Salam's story
Published May 30, 2003
and it gets worse - he needs to be edited much more carefully in the future and perhaps sent back for some remedial reporting training).
Brief update (because I need to get some sleep): Warren responded in an email that he would only run a correction when he was sure he was wrong. He said he tracked an individual he believes is Salam "through Chalabi people in Bagdhad incidently." It is hardly incidental. Salam has been critical of Chalabi and it seems
logical they would try and discredit him.
And as Jack Shafer at Slate has pointed out in his criticism of Judith Miller's reporting in the New York Times, Chalabi's information so far seems pretty misleading.
I emailed Warren back and asked if he had even tried to contact Salam to verify any of his info. I also said at the very least, he should write a column with the information Salaam posted. No reply yet, but he said he was going to sleep which I should do as well.
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I don't think you're likely to get an honest response out of Mr. Warren.
I've debunked some of the falsehoods in his column on my blog (with a follow-up post as well).
In comments on this thread on another blog, Warren acknowledges reading my objections, and you can enjoy me exposing the flaws in his evasive, half-hearted response.
"Warren responded in an email that he would only run a correction when he was sure he was wrong."
Isn't Warren wrong in shifting the burden of proof (truth)?
Shouldn't he be honest to his readers that he can not be sure that his earlier comments are true?
Of course, that would seem like the honest thing to do..........
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He replied that he had tried to contact Salam and was going to again and would follow-up on what Salam wrote and the Guardian article.