And it only took them 16 days.
The New York Times took more than two weeks to correct a glaring error in a report detailing efforts by Planned Parenthood to stanch the flow of undercover videos from a pro-life activist group.
The Times originally reported on July 21 that the Center for Medical Progress, the group behind a series of secretly recorded tapes showing Planned Parenthood affiliates discussing compensation for organs salvaged from the remains of aborted children, released it full, unedited footage only after the nation’s largest provider of abortions had “complained of selective, misleading editing.”
This is not true.
The pro-life group has from the very beginning made all of its raw footage available online. The Center for Medical Progress has also provided complete video transcripts for each video.
The Times report, titled “Planned Parenthood Tells Congress More Videos of Clinics Might Surface,” now bears an Aug. 6 correction reading, “An article on July 21 about a video made by abortion opponents, which they said proved that Planned Parenthood sells tissue from aborted fetuses for profit, referred incorrectly to the timing of the release of what was described as the full-length, unedited version of the video showing a Planned Parenthood employee talking about how much clinics charge for specimens.”
“The full video was posted at the same time as the edited version. It is not the case that the full video was not released until ‘after Planned Parenthood complained of selective, misleading editing,'” the correction added.