NYT Issues Correction After Quoting Parody North Korea Twitter Account
The New York Times was forced to issue a correction after the paper quoted from a parody Twitter account pretending to be a genuine news outlet.
The story, published on Tuesday, initially included a quote taken from a July 4 tweet from the DPRK News Service Twitter account, a parody account that purports to be the “Official news feed of Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. The tweet in question lambasted the U.S. administration for “drunkenly” firing “missiles into East Sea of Korea”:
Imbecilic Americans drunkenly fire missiles into East Sea of Korea, demonstrating near total ignorance of ballistic science. pic.twitter.com/Yye1Kksvh7
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) July 4, 2017
It didn’t take the Times long to issue the correction, updating the story within hours of publication, but the blunder is nonetheless embarrassing for one of the top newspapers in the United States.
The correction attributes the mistake to an “editing error”:
Correction: July 4, 2017
Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article attributed incorrectly a Twitter statement to the North Korean government. The North Korean government did not belittle a joint American-South Korean military exercise as “demonstrating near total ignorance of ballistic science,” that statement was from the DPRK News Service, a parody Twitter account.
As noted by Gizmodo blogger Matt Novak, this is not the first time a major American news outlet fell for the DPRK News Service. Outlets ranging from Newsweek, USA Today, the Washington Post, Fox, Reuters, HuffPost, the Verge and Buzzfeed have all been fooled by the parody account.
Novak reported on the fake account as early as January 2015, which, he said, promptly got him blocked; apparently other outlets failed to take note.
The DPRK News Service Twitter account is run by two Americans, according to the Washington Post. While it isn’t always easy to tell the parody from real statements from the North Korean regime, absurd tweets such as this one tend to let the cat out of the bag:
7th Workers Party Congress to confirm status of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un as great lawgiver, in tradition of Moses and Joseph Stalin.
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) April 18, 2016
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) is the official state-run news service of North Korea.
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Common Core Education at its FINEST! “A” for Credulous Breathlessness. (And an “F” for Critical Fact Checking but Common Core does NOT teach that.)
Even the “ONION” Parody News Service hosts more accurate reportage than the NYT, these days. About more that MATTERS to the Rest of Us, in fact. Only with a larf-inducing twist, is all. (NYTimes Erroneous Editorial Board: Do you HEAR us NOW?)
Because in the cowardly (oh wait wait I sure did mean “BRAVE”, yessirree! BRAVE!) NeoWorld long envisioned by the august and elite Sorosians, Hillarites and various sundry other scheckelgruber Banksterians, for a NORMAL CITIZEN to actually THINK ACCURATELY about ANYTHING is an existential THREAT to the (Bolshvik fascist, shhhh-hhh-hh!) NEOSTATE, didn’t you KNOW?
Besides, ACCURATE TRUTH is just SO SUBJECTIVE, isn’t it really? WHAT is WRONG with YOU?
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