Three days ago I highlighted HuffPo‘s article on a Canadian Muslim girl’s complaint that she was attacked by a man (twice) who cut up her hijab with scissors. Here’s the article (click on screenshot):
As I noted at the time, this report turned out to be false: the girl admitted she made up the story. One would think, then, that HuffPo would correct this story, or at least add a note that it was false. But it hadn’t done when I made this comment on February 16.
It’s been three more days, and while the site has reported elsewhere that the girl’s story was false, do you think HuffPo revisited the original report to either correct it or link to the followup?
Don’t make me laugh. It’s HuffPo, Jake!
Huffpo ceased to be serious site some time ago.Probably before Ariana left.
HuffPost is in turnaround mode, for the better. It used to accept all sorts of pieces from all sorts of people, which no doubt accounted for much of its daffy “reporting” and essays, but according to today’s New York Times, that period has now come to a close:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/business/media/huffpost-unpaid-contributors.html?ref=todayspaper
I’m not sure HuffPost will suddenly find its liberal, progressive feet.
Its regressive journalists and contributors will still be regressive, paid or unpaid.
Guardian contributors and journos as most certainly paid, and yet, everyday, there is a new piece of post-modernist tripe.
I read the other day in the NYT that HuffPo will dump its unpaid contributors program — “to improve the editorial quality of the news site and cut down on unvetted reporting.”
According to VARIETY :-
I have no idea how they’ll be able to afford only paid & fact-checked content – perhaps they’ll escalate their tendency to aggregate content from other sources – sources that have done all the donkey work…
Snap! Barry Lyons 🙂
I’m wondering,in fact, hoping, that the girl’s story is a semi-conscious effort to rid herself of the hijab. That is, if someone else cuts it off, then she cannot be guilty of wishing it away. She may also hope that her family sees her wearing of the hijab as an invitation to bigots and allows her to shuck it.
I have read several articles conjecting the reasons for all the hijab hate crime fakery. Most of it seems to revolve around the young women’s being forced to wear a modesty sack while living in a culture where female sexuality and beauty are very much out in the open. It has to be pretty conflicting.
BTW, without checking, I’m fairly certain the DuffPo recently published an article saying “we” (presumably that the Canadian public) need to “apologise” to the girl.
Not sure why. I didn’t bother read it.
Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t see Prof. Coyne’s comment on that site.
It’s there: click on the “balloon” icon at the bottom of the left-hand column to make the comments visible.
I,for one, am tired of all these huffpo posts. Why are you wasting your time on this? I don’t read huffpo or the National Enquirer, unless I’m in the checkout lane and it’s a story about aliens(the outerpace kind)and I don’t think any other remotely serious person does either. I do apologize, if I broke the rulz.
Yep, you did. Frankly, I don’t care whether you want to read these posts or not.
I’ve explained why I post so much about HuffPo. Time for you to find another site.
I sure am tire of all those cat posts – besides, I am allergic to cats! JAC – before you banish me, that was said as a sarcastic commentary on those who would presumptuously tell you what or what not to write about. As noted, corrections of errors are always welcome, and I would note, along with Travis, that February 16 likely should be January 16.
It seems that Reuters provided the article and the “did not happen” article. Both “news” organizations have left the original up with no note that subsequent events call the original into question.
Reuters links:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-crime-hijab/canadian-police-search-for-man-who-cut-11-year-old-girls-hijab-idUSKBN1F12F4
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-crime-hijab/attack-on-child-wearing-hijab-did-not-happen-canadian-police-say-idUSKBN1F42JI
Yep, both HuffPo and Reuters are at fault here, but I never saw the article on the Reuters page.
Feb 16th wasn’t 3 days ago 😉
There is a comment on the original story stating that it is false. Also there is a separate article stating the same thing. So the information is there for the reader.
I would have corrected the original story, but it may not be appropriate for me to suggest how others should present their material.
I can’t see Jerry’s comment either. The only options I get for which comments to see are “Top”, “Oldest”, and “Newest”. Remarkably, all three criteria managed to exclude Jerry’s comment (apparently there are only 9 comments altogether, so that is quite a feat). One wonders why they don’t simply have an option to view “All” comments …