[lbo-talk] AP publishes a 'censored' copy of the Obama Cairo speech transcript without notification that it is an abridged transcript

JC Helary brandelune at gmail.com
Thu Jun 4 09:32:05 PDT 2009


On vendredi 05 juin 09, at 01:12, Bryan Atinsky wrote:


> Am I making a big deal out of nothing?
>
> When examining the AP transcript of President Obama's speech in
> Cairo yesterday, I was very confused to find that almost the entire
> section where Obama discusses the Israel/Palestine situation was
> removed. (I see that they mention they got the transcript from CQ
> Transcriptions, but that is no excuse for lax journalistic
> practices, making sure that it is either the entire speech
> transcript or states "abridged transcript" or shows "[...]" where
> portions of the transcript were removed".)

The NYT has it all it seems

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/us/politics/04obama.text.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Jean-Christophe Helary



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