stop me if you've heard this before

the ny times may have run a phony story...
it's always embarrassing [bugmenot login] when the ny times has to cover a ny times goof

the intensely lefty salon.com investigation of abu ghraib pix led to the questions.

while its self-defeating for liberal institutions go after each other, the nytimes is no stranger to critiquing fellow media on sensitive topics...what's good for the goose...

yet, i'm sure the NYTimes will fall back on the old media reliable 'fake but accurate' bit

update: the wsj's james taranto notes in 'best of the web today' (2nd item)

Yesterday we noted that the New York Times had published a page 1 story on Abu Ghraib on the same day that it published a story on page 8 about the murder of a hostage, who, as the Times reported the next day on page 10, was apparently tortured before being slain. Today the Times reports its Abu Ghraib story may have been fake
[snipped salon article referenced above]
The story raising doubts about the page 1 story appeared on page 17.

the correction rarely trumps the initial story