New York Times Asks Fox for Apology After ‘Inaccurate Segment’
On Monday, Danielle Rhoades-Ha, a spokeswoman for The Times, said in an email
that the segment “wasn’t an apology, nor did it begin to address the larger issues with the Fox & Friends Weekend segment, one of which was sheer hypocrisy.”
She continued, “The host railed against for covering a raid stating
that the U. S. government ‘would have had al-Baghdadi based on the intelligence that we had except someone leaked’ to when Fox News had covered the same raid three weeks earlier in a segment in which their correspondent said, ‘The newly recovered intelligence may bring U. S. closer to Baghdadi’s kill or capture.’”
“According to the curious logic of the Fox & Friends host, Fox News itself was unpatriotic,” she added.
“Their sick agenda over National Security.”
On Sunday, Ms. Rhoades-Ha requested “an on-air apology and tweet from Fox & Friends.”
Referring to Saturday’s “Fox & Friends” segment, she said, “A host on Fox & Friends wrongly states that, “al-Baghdadi was able to sneak away under the cover of darkness after a New York Times story” and
that the U. S. government “would have had al-Baghdadi based on the intelligence that we had except someone leaked information to the failing New York Times.”
On Sunday, The Times also published a fact-check of the Fox News article and the president’s tweet.
The Fox News story, which was published on Friday and then discussed in a “Fox & Friends” segment Saturday morning, said
that The Times had released valuable intelligence in an article of June 8, 2015, about an American military raid in which the wife of a top Islamic State operative was captured.
Both the updated article and the TV segment added part of a comment from The Times stating
that the paper had described the piece to the Pentagon before publication and “they had no objections.” Neither the article nor the segment acknowledged the paper’s request for an apology nor did they respond directly to the accusations of inaccuracy.