The New York Times posted the following correction on its website today, responding to a problem pointed out in a FAIR Action Alert (8/24/07):
An article published on NYTimes.com on Aug. 21 about Senator Barack Obama’s appearance before a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention paraphrased incorrectly from his comment about protests at military funerals. He said: “When men and women who died in service to this country are laid to rest, there must be no protests near the funerals. It’s wrong and it needs to stop.” He did not say that it was wrong for “anti-war activists” to protest at military funerals.
FAIR would like to thank the activists who wrote to the Times regarding this issue.
The FAIR alert should have more clearly described the piece in question as an article on the Times website. (A subsequent version in the print edition of the paper did not include the language about anti-war activists.) Also, the alert’s first reference to Barack Obama misspelled his first name.
