Newspapers and their Blogs...update 1

Damian Thompson of the Telegraph has posted a retraction of sorts. His previous post on Muslims laying siege to a Sydney hospital was, he admits, “counterknowledge”, an “urban legend”. I am reminded of the Pentagon’s retraction (see these Washington Post and New York Times articles) of their earlier and much publicised claim of small Iranian speedboats threatening three U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf. In both cases, grave concerns about the ongoing threat were expressed alongside the (rather muted) retractions.