Time for a Coverup?

Media is a Plural by Rory O'Connor | Dec. 21, 2007 (Opinion)

Is Time magazine's "full" and "complete" transcript of its "Person of the Year" interview with Vladimir Putin a fraudulent cover up? It appears so. A glaring factual error was apparently edited out of the transcript in an attempt to spare top executives embarrassment over an exchange at the beginning of the recent chat between the Russian leader and Time.Inc editor in chief John Huey, Time managing editor Richard Stengel and deputy managing editor Adi Ignatius. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Rory O'Connor - Dec 21, 2007 - 8:24 AM PST
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 by Ted Perlmutter - Dec. 25, 2007

It is always the coverup that is worse than the crime.

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 by Paul Keene - Dec. 23, 2007

Ok, the writer caught an error, but in the end I'm left wth a "so what". Certainly there are bigger issues to skewer Time with.

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 by Kaizar Campwala - Dec. 21, 2007

Highlights how even interview transcripts posted by media organizations should be taken with a grain of salt. Nice catch.

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 by Rory O'Connor - Dec. 21, 2007
Rory posted this story.
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