NYT Pins Obama-Era $52,701 Curtains on Nikki Haley
A Times story and headline tied $52,701 in State Department curtain spending to U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley amid budget cuts, illustrated with her photo.
The framing cast a prominent Trump appointee as extravagant during budget cuts.
What was reported
A Times story and headline tied $52,701 in State Department curtain spending to U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley amid budget cuts, illustrated with her photo.
What actually happened
The purchase had been planned and approved under the Obama administration, before Haley took the job; her spokesman had said so before publication. The next day the Times added an editor's note saying the story created an unfair impression about who was responsible, should not have focused on Haley or used her picture, and had been edited.
The proof
The Times's own editor's note conceding the decision was made during the Obama administration.
The receipt. Copy this and paste it anywhere:
NYT Pins Obama-Era $52,701 Curtains on Nikki Haley — Retracted. The Times's own editor's note conceding the decision was made during the Obama administration. Full file: https://www.thepropagandafiles.com/case/nyt-nikki-haley-curtains/
Original reporting
- Business Standard (PTI): wire summary of the original Times reporthttps://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/usd-52-701-spent-on-curtains-for-nikki-haley-s-official-residence-amid-deep-budget-cuts-report-118091400199_1.html
Corrections, findings & records
- iMediaEthics: NYT admits Haley curtain article gave 'unfair impression' (editor's note text)https://www.imediaethics.org/nikki-haley-curtain-article-gave-unfair-impression-new-york-times-admits/
- CNN Business: NYT editor's note on Haley curtains storyhttps://money.cnn.com/2018/09/14/media/nikki-haley-new-york-times-curtains/index.html
- Mediaite: NYT issues editor's notehttps://www.mediaite.com/online/new-york-times-issues-serious-editors-note-to-nikki-haley-curtains-report-created-unfair-impression
Archived copies
Stories get edited after publication. These open the Internet Archive's earliest saved copy of each original.
- Archived copy: Business Standard (PTI): wire summary of the original Times reporthttps://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/usd-52-701-spent-on-curtains-for-nikki-haley-s-official-residence-amid-deep-budget-cuts-report-118091400199_1.html