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Re:New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’ by kergonath on Saturday December 19, 2020 @01:09PM (#25479569)
The podcast was an experiment at the time, and the people making it were outside the structure in which the print journalists were operating. The story was sexy, guard rails were not entirely in place, and everyone was enthusiastic about making the podcast so they overlook details they shouldn't have. They touch upon this here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/world/middleeast/caliphat...

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Re:New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’ by alisonkisk on Saturday December 19, 2020 @01:53PM (#25480026)
A podcast has a written script just like a story in the paper. NYT has editors and fact checkers.

There's no excuse for this; the organization failed to justify its claim to be the "paper of record".

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Re:New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’ by whimsicalism on Saturday December 19, 2020 @02:35PM (#25480414)
Yes, but from what I heard from my parents (who are ex-editor of major publications) there was a lot of skepticism from bureau chiefs on the war beat. The NYT is a diverse organization and there are factions.
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Re:New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’ by kergonath on Saturday December 19, 2020 @07:07PM (#25482554)
Different department in the company; different procedures. The podcast was handled outside the standard hierarchy because they wanted to experiment and out of the turf wars.

I'm not saying that's how it should be, but apparently that's how it was.

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