Caliphate and NYT
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NYT created an award winning podcast called "Caliphate", that was a complete hoax. They didn't retract.
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2021-01-12 |
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- NYT created and published a podcast called "Caliphate", the dramatic story of a Canadian man who was lured to Syria by ISIS and eventually became an executioner for the group.
- It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won a Peabody award in 2018.
- Canadian authorities investigated the protagonist and accused him of perpetrating a terrorism hoax, and after an investigation, NY Times was forced to give back the award and offer an editors note (egg on face).
- But NYT kept the podcast around (never retracted the story) because 2 of 12 episodes may have not been tainted, and they spun it as Michael Barbaro (the top Podcaster of NYT) was a champion for exposing it, while he was actually pressuring media outlets to go easy on the story.
Other than getting the story wrong (publishing a fabrication), not retracting and story they knew was false, and misrepresenting how they handled it... they had journalistic integrity.
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