NYT Whispers Apology For WMD Stories: In a 1,100-word editors' note yesterday, the Gray Lady admitted it flubbed much of its reporting on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq last year. [...]
[Greg Mitchell, editor of the influential trade magazine Editor & Publisher] estimated that up to 300 newspapers around the country may have carried the questionable stories, which went out over the New York Times News Service.
Papers were not told until 10 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday about the massive clarification, rankling newspaper editors nationwide.
"It seems like pretty shabby treatment to subscribers of the Times service," said Doug Clifton, editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which had run two of the questionable Times stories on its front page.
