The Nation's Ari Melber and Daily Kos' Markos Moulitsas have won a battle against Time magazine and its reporter/columnist/blogger Joe Klein. Klein produced a story on last year's Netroots Nation in which he described Hillary Clinton being booed at the event. Trouble is, Melber and Kos say Clinton wasn't booed by the audience. Klein's inaccurate description was included in a version of a story covering this year's Netroots National event in Austin, Texas. Time initially rejected calls for a correction to Klein's piece, leaving Kos understandably agitated:
I already fired off an email to Time asking for corrections to that and several other glaring errors in that terrible piece. But as we've learned with Joe Klein, Time considers itself and its writers infallible, so there's slim chance of any corrections.
But with Melber and Kos bringing attention to the erroneous piece, the Time editors have since abdicated:
The original version of this story said that Hillary Clinton's appearance at a 2007 Netroots Q&A session was greeted by boos. The writer confused that event with accounts of another Clinton appearance that had taken place earlier. Clinton was not booed at the Netroots event.
UPDATE: Another Netroots Nation story bites the dust. This time an attempted humor piece, apparently, from the Austin American-Statesman.
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