Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz said Friday The New York Times committed a "major league failure" after the paper admitted to not properly vetting the claims of a supposed terrorist featured in its award-winning podcast "Caliphate." "It's hard to overstate what a major league failure this is for the New York Times, which fell for an elaborate hoax," Kurtz told "Outnumbered Overtime." NEW YORK TIMES ADMITS MASSIVE FAILURE TO VET FALSE CLAIMS IN 'CALIPHATE' PODCASTKurtz credited the Times and executive editor Dean Baquet with coming clean about the story's errors, though he noted the Times had not deleted the podcast. SUBJECT OF NY TIMES PODCAST 'CALIPHATE' ARRESTED FOR FAKING HIS ISIS PAST, RAISING QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIO SERIESKurtz noted Callimachi's apology for what the newspaper got wrong, "which as it turned out, was a lot." The podcast as a whole should not have been produced with Mr. Chaudhry as a central narrative character," the Times correction said.

Source: Fox News December 18, 2020 21:22 UTC