Dowd is Out in Mobile

Michael Marshall, editor of the Mobile Register, explains, July 27, why Maureen Dowd's columns will not appear in his publication until hell freezes over she retracts her misquotation of George W. Bush, quoting his letter to Gail Collins, editorial page editor at NYT:

.... I was aware that Ms. Dowd used the president's full quote in a subsequent column, but that column makes no reference to the earlier blunder. That would not qualify as a correction or clarification in any editor's book.

If there has been some other clarification that I have somehow missed, please let me know.

Absent any other clarification by Dowd, I need to know if The New York Times Wire Service is going to set the matter straight, or if the Times management has made a conscious decision to let the error stand.

I can believe that Ms. Dowd had no "intention to distort" the president's meaning. But when it comes to the need for a correction or clarification, intent is irrelevant. She goofed, and that goof must be corrected....

I can believe, too, that Dowd didn't do it on purpose: I think she has such livid hatred for Bush and his administration that her feverish mind caught a couple of phrases that (she thought) made Bush look bad, and she ran with them.

See Maureen Dowd No Longer Welcome in the "Crossroads of the Piney Woods" and More Deception From an NYT Columnist: Maureen Dowd, this time.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 07/29/03 08:35:01 AM
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