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Friday, November 18, 2005

Chomskygate

The Guardian says it's sorry. Very, very sorry. It's pulled the original interview, so you can't read it on the site (though you can read it here), but it seems they got a great deal wrong:

From the apology:

"The readers' editor has considered a number of complaints from Noam Chomsky concerning an interview with him by Emma Brockes published in G2, the second section of the Guardian, on October 31. He has found in favour of Professor Chomsky on three significant complaints.
Principal among these was a statement by Ms Brockes that in referring to atrocities committed at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war he had placed the word "massacre" in quotation marks. This suggested, particularly when taken with other comments by Ms Brockes, that Prof Chomsky considered the word inappropriate or that he had denied that there had been a massacre. Prof Chomsky has been obliged to point out that he has never said or believed any such thing. The Guardian has no evidence whatsoever to the contrary and retracts the statement with an unreserved apology to Prof Chomsky."

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1 Comments:

How does an interviewer decide what to put in quotation marks, unless the interviewee, deliberately curls his fingers in the air to draw quotation marks around what he's saying. Or was the interview by email?

By Blogger thalassa_mikra, at 11/21/2005 03:42:00 AM  

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