I read a lot of news coverage but rarely do I read the same article appearing in two different media sources when one is just a reprint of the other. Today I happened to read two versions of an article talking about the impending execution of Saddam Hussein. The original appeared in the Los Angeles Times and the reprint in the Seattle Times.
Sad that the news media does not agree on even two facts that are clearly verifiable. Check out this paragraph from the article and note how the two versions differ on the number of codefendants and the number receiving death sentences.
The Los Angeles Times version:
Hussein was sentenced Nov. 5 to hang for crimes against humanity in connection with the killing of 148 men and boys from the Shiite Muslim town of Dujayl
after an attempt there to assassinate him in 1982. Two of his seven codefendants also received death sentences.
The Seattle Times version:
Saddam was sentenced Nov. 5 for crimes against humanity in connection with the killing of about 100 men and boys from the Shiite town of Dujail who were suspected of attempting to assassinate him in 1982. Three of his six codefendants also received death sentences.
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