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by iudqnolq 2388 days ago
Actually the (egregiously aweful) WMD stories were retracted

For example:

> Daniel Okrent, then-public editor of the The New York Times, went further in his column on the paper's mea culpa. His summary could have applied to many other media outlets: "Some of the Times coverage in the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq was credulous; much of it was inappropriately italicized by lavish front-page display and heavy-breathing headlines; and several fine articles ... that challenged information in the faulty stories were played as quietly as a lullaby."

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar/part1/wmd.h...