#NY Times admits ‘Caliphate’ podcast based on botched reporting

#NY Times admits ‘Caliphate’ podcast based on botched reporting

“#NY Times admits ‘Caliphate’ podcast based on botched reporting” The New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-nominated podcast about ISIS was an “institutional failure” that included shoddy reporting based off interviews with a “con artist,” executive editor Dean Baquet said Friday. In a blistering editor’s note, the newspaper said the 2018 series “Caliphate” blew its journalistic standards….

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#Suicide attack kills 18 in Afghanistan; al-Qaida recently leader

#Suicide attack kills 18 in Afghanistan; al-Qaida recently leader

“#Suicide attack kills 18 in Afghanistan; al-Qaida recently leader” KABUL, Afghanistan — The death toll from the suicide attack Saturday in Afghanistan’s capital has risen to at least 18 killed and 57 people wounded, including students, the interior ministry said. Afghan security officials separately announced on Saturday that a senior al-Qaida commander had been killed…

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