The editorial itself had linked to a story debunked it. Ross dowthat, who was a colleague and a conservative colonist at the times, allerted the editorial page editor, james bennet, te email to this problem. He later testified he didn't sleep that night and sent an email to his colleagues at five o eight the next morning saying, we need to get to the bottom of this. So the times corrects itself. But sarah payland still decides to sue. She says she was harmed. And obviously, she has been a critic of the new york times and the main street media for a really long time. You're seeing some idiots in the press
The New York Times published an editorial that made false claims about Sarah Palin. A lawsuit over the error could change American media.
This episode was produced by Will Reid, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Richard Sima and Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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