Anonymous ID: cbde01 Dec. 26, 2020, 12:42 p.m. No.12186126   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6286

New York Times forced to retract hit ISIS podcast series … because it was a HOAX

 

Saturday, December 26, 2020 by: By Rick Moran

 

The New York Times is retracting large parts of its award-winning hit podcast series Caliphate after it was discovered that the production’s main source was a liar.

 

Shehroze Chaudhry, a Canadian who claimed to have been radicalized online and went to Syria, joining ISIS and becoming an executioner, was arrested by Canadian authorities last October and charged with perpetrating a terrorism hoax. He had given the Times terrorism reporter detailed accounts of his life in ISIS, including the story that he executed two prisoners.

 

The award-winning Times terrorism reporter, Rukmini Callimachi, fell for it hook, line, and sinker.

The Times resisted revisiting Chaudhry’s story until his arrest this fall, when Canadian officials charged him with lying about participating in terrorist activities. It then published the findings into Chaudhry’s activities by its distinguished national security reporter, Mark Mazzetti, who cast significant doubt on the Canadian’s claims.

 

A separate internal review of Caliphate‘s reporting process was led by senior investigative editor Dean Murphy. He found that Callimachi and her editors repeatedly failed to push hard enough to verify Chaudhry’s claims, Baquet tells NPR.

 

“They came back and said, ‘If you look at the guy’s story, there is not enough powerful evidence that he was who he claimed to be for us to justify that story,” Baquet says.

 

Reading between the lines here, it appears that Editor Baquet might have pulled his punches a bit because Callimachi was a woman.

The “driving force of the story” was The Narrative. Any information that conflicted with The Narrative was dismissed or explained away.

At the heart of the episode was an effort to figure out how the pieces of his story might fit together — if the Times was willing to shift the dates involved. One audio editor described that scenario as “Occam’s razor,” suggesting that it was the simplest resolution to their dilemma and therefore probably the right one.

 

The “simplest solution” was to falsify the dates? When in doubt, make stuff up.

 

Sauce: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/12/18/new-york-times-forced-to-retract-hit-isis-podcast-series-because-it-was-a-hoax-n1218390