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New York Times Misidentifies Aleppo Twice in Story About Gary Johnson’s Aleppo Gaffe
« on: September 10, 2016, 10:59:03 pm »
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Libertarian presidential candidate and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson went on MSNBC's Morning Joe today and admitted in response to a question about Aleppo, Syria, that he had no idea what "Aleppo" was. This was a pretty big mistake for someone who is likely to get millions of votes in the upcoming presidential election, so the New York Times wrote a story about it. Except that its story misidentified Aleppo....

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/09/08/no_one_knows_what_aleppo_is.html



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Re: New York Times Misidentifies Aleppo Twice in Story About Gary Johnson’s Aleppo Gaffe
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2016, 11:30:22 pm »
Easy mistake for a NY Times reporter to make. Aleppo has no bars.  :tongue2:
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Re: New York Times Misidentifies Aleppo Twice in Story About Gary Johnson’s Aleppo Gaffe
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2016, 12:39:25 am »
Quote from: EC on September 10, 2016, 11:30:22 pm
Easy mistake for a NY Times reporter to make. Aleppo has no bars.  :tongue2:

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On the original story, I did a quick search and the NYT and other media outlets barely if at all mentioned Aleppo in the past year. You found some international sources and specialty sites, but I will bet you a tenner, when this happened, every single source that reported on it had to google it to see where Aleppo was themselves.
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