Monday, June 29, 2009

Venezuela censoring news of Iran protests.. Not!

BoRev.net has a great catch: the Washington Post put a story online with this lede:
"Out of fear that history might repeat itself, the authoritarian regimes of Cuba, China, Burma and Venezuela have been selectively censoring the news this month of Iranian crowds braving government militias on the streets of Tehran to demand government reforms."
But then further down the story reported, accurately, that in fact Venezuela had done no such thing. Oops! As BoRev says "Another awesome story has been DESTROYED, by reporting." The Post fixed the story on the website, and had it fixed in time for Saturday's paper.

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