By: Greg Mitchell Just two weeks after it admitted that photos in a major photo spread in its Sunday Magazine had been digitally manipulated, The New York Times carried a long Editors' Note in print today (this is more serious than a mere Correction) concerning last week's Magazine cover story on Whales.
Oddly, by our check this morning, the Editors' Note did not show up online -- or attached to the original article, as is usual policy. The borrowed language remained at the end of the published piece online. Finally, hours later, this afternoon the correction did appear online. It was a rare occasion these days when print beat web.
It seems that parts of the final two paragraphs were borrowed from a certain "widely circulated" e-mail that was sent to the author, who did not attribute the colorful descriptions. The writer, Charles Siebert, according to the Times, "said that he unwittingly incorporated some of the phrasing from the e-mail message that had been sent earlier."
These included describing a whale, in a 2005 episode, swimming "in joyous circles" and nudging a diver "as if in thanks." Divers thought it was "the most beautiful experience they ever had."
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