About time

Not to be all haughty, but, yes, to be all haughty:

On Monday morning I posted about the alleged terror threat unraveling. Now the rest of the blogosphere has finally taken this question on.

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I will say I'm impressed that the NYT and *some* other media have been sticking all along to calling it an "alleged terror plot" rather than a "terror plot".

On the other hand, a lot of media published articles, sourced to annonymous government officials, saying stuff specifically about the imminence of the plot that we now know not to be true. So we ought to see corrections. Yes, it's still true that those senior government officials said what they said. But given that they were saying things that weren't true, readers deserve corrections. This is what we'd deserve to know: "the annonymously-sourced information that provided the basis for front-page articles X, Y and Z in the first days after the announcement of the alleged terror plot was incorrect. In reality, the terror plot was not imminent in the ways described in those articles."