Fwd: Re: GROUNDED: The Feds DO maintain an air travel blacklist

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Nov 18 13:55:22 PST 2002


Michael Pugliese forwarded:


> Your recycling of the Salon.com article on the No-Fly list without
> any further checking is typical of the way this incident has been
> broadcast without any attempt to ascertain the reality. Salon.com
> has made substantial corrections in this sloppy article that you
> re-posted, the main point of which seems to be an attack on the
> skeptical Greens who did not buy Nancy Oden's story of being
> spotted on a computer list of Green Party activists. Recently there

Turns out you can view Salon Premium for free if you sit through four screens of Mercedes ads. Here is the correction. These don't strike me as "substantial." And in one of the three cases, the error was an understatement.

Doug

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>"Grounded", a story published on Nov. 15, incorrectly reported that
>attorney Barbara Olshansky of the Center for Constitutional Rights
>was attempting to board a JetBlue flight when she was stopped and
>strip-searched earlier this year. In fact, when she flew out of
>Newark, she was not taking JetBlue. The story also reported
>incorrectly that Green Party activist Doug Stuber, after being
>stopped from taking his planned flight from Raleigh-Durham, N.C., to
>Hamburg last month by U.S. Secret Service agents, was able to fly to
>his destination on a later flight. In fact, after trying for two
>days at various airports, Stuber found he was barred from boarding
>any flight and missed his business trip. The story also described
>Peace Action as a Roman Catholic organization. In fact, it is not
>affliated with any religious group. The story has been corrected.
>Salon regrets the errors.
>[Correction made 11/15/02]



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