Gross misinformation in NYT today

[Cocoa]

Adam Nagourney slips in this factual claim:

In Iraq, the transfer of sovereignty has led to some reduction in American casualties.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/21/politics/campaign/21repubs.html?pagewanted=all&position=



This claim resembles something Dick Morris just wrote:


Whether the news is good — the handover of power in Iraq and the decreasing casualties — or bad — the intelligence failures and the Sept. 11 commission’s report — seems not to matter.

http://www.thehill.com/morris/072104.aspx




Unfortunately both Nagourney and Morris are totally WRONG:

Since the June 28 handover of power, the 160,000 coalition forces have averaged more than two deaths a day, among the highest rate of losses since the war began 15 months ago. By Saturday, 36 US soldiers had died this month, compared with 42 last month, according to a Globe analysis of official statistics.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/07/19/us_casualty_rate_high_since_handover/

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Grrr...... stupid "liberal" media!

[gratuitous]

2. Oh that? Just a typo

What the Nagourney sentence should have read is:

In Iraq, the transfer of sovereignty has led to some reduction in stateside reporting of American casualties.

[Cocoa]

4. exactly right

maybe Nagourney is basing this claim on watching TV.


Or reading Dick Morris columns:

Whether the news is good - the handover of power in Iraq and the decreasing casualties - or bad - the intelligence failures and the Sept. 11 commission’s report - seems not to matter.

http://www.thehill.com/morris/072104.aspx

[tom_paine]

3. Doesn't ANYBODY in Imperial Pravda FACT CHECK anymore?

Why do I insist on asking questions I already know the answers to?

No.

[shraby]

5. Call them on it.

Email them and dispute their assertion that there has been fewer casualties.