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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

LiberalOasis Busts Enquirer Mistake

Posted by The Dean of Cincinnati

A few days ago, LiberalOasis caught the Enquirer printing erroneous information in its endorsement of John McCain. Based on Gannett’s newsroom ethics policies, which allegedly value ”Correcting Errors,” the Enquirer needs to publish a printed correction as well as an update to its online endorsement.

From LiberalOasis:

The Cincinnati Enquirer endorsement of Sen. John McCain includes this paragraph (emphasis added):

The recent dialogue between Obama and “Joe the Plumber,” Ohio resident Joe Wurzelbacher, illustrated to voters Obama’s focus on “spreading the wealth” through taxes rather than growing the nation’s wealth by encouraging middle-class Americans to aspire upward, creating more businesses, jobs, income - and more tax revenue. “A strong government hand is needed to assure that wealth is distributed more equitably,” Obama says. That’s a zero-sum, central-control mentality.

One problem: Obama never said that.

As reported by snopes.com, a viral email has spread which takes a misleading and overly simplistic paraphrase of Obama’s words by the Wall Street Journal, and falsely attributes it to Obama.

End of story. It doesn’t matter if anyone agrees with the characterization, or not. It is not a direct quotation, and according to the paper’s newsroom ethics, they must issue a correction. So I just sent this:

Mr. Callinan:

As you know, Gannett’s newsroom ethics state that “errors should be corrected promptly.” The following comes from your paper’s recent endorsement of John McCain:

“A strong government hand is needed to assure that wealth is distributed more equitably,” Obama says.

As reported online, this quote was never spoken by Obama. It is a word-for-word paraphrase by the Wall Street Journal. So, your paper plagiarized another paper’s paraphrase and misattributed it as a direct quotation from Barack Obama.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/distribute.asp

Please advise when a correction will be published, as well as an update to your online story.

Thanks,

[The Dean of Cincinnati]

cc: Barbara Henry

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says:
28 Oct 2008 at 03:20 pm | #

Callinan, Tom <tcallina@cincinna.gannett.com> Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:40 AM
To: [The Dean of Cincinnati], “Wells, David” <DWELLS@cincinna.gannett.com>

David:

The phrase was used in the Sunday editorial with direct quote marks.

Please discuss with Ray.

Thanks

cincysuz says:
28 Oct 2008 at 05:58 pm | #

Good catch. The Enquirer knew what they were doing. They just didn’t think they’d get caught.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081028/EDIT01/101260019/1019/EDIT