'Kudos'! Let's all give the NYT props for having the moral fortitude to withdraw Pulitzer Prize entry that didn't meet their rigorous 'standards'

Last week, the New York Times was once again in full-on damage-control mode, this time over the star subject of their hit “Caliphate” podcast serious being charged in Canada with “perpetrating a terrorism hoax.” Oops, right? Happens to the best of us.

My interview with NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet on what went wrong with the hit podcast series "Caliphate": "We wanted to believe."

Listen to him on my piece for NPR's @MorningEdition, then read the full story. https://t.co/ZVxCWz22wY

— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) December 18, 2020

The Times did not remove 'Caliphate' from its site or feeds. Asked whether its actions constitute a retraction, Baquet paused and told me, "I guess for the parts that were about Chaudhry and his history and his background. Yeah, I think it is. Sure does."https://t.co/N6YQeARVLL

— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) December 18, 2020

Dean Baquet admitted that “we didn’t listen hard enough” to the evidence that Shehroze Chaudhry, aka Abu Huzayfah, was lying through his teeth.

And now, the New York Times has made the moral decision to withdraw their entry for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize. They really wanted to get out ahead of this thing.

Thanks to Tablet’s Wesley Yang for bringing this to our attention:

When the NYT seeks honors for a journalistic project that reveals itself to be flawed and in need of correction, it has the integrity to rescind its pursuit of recognition for that flawed work… pic.twitter.com/vvnuLFsT5M

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) December 23, 2020

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So stunning and brave.

Kudos to the Times for not doubling down on a flawed work of reportage or attempting a Big Lie campaign to bully and shame its critics into silence

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) December 23, 2020

See what Yang did there?

Iswydt https://t.co/sgvGxERMf8

— Ramesh Ponnuru (@RameshPonnuru) December 23, 2020

LOL https://t.co/2ZVzYt5wsr

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 23, 2020

I LOLed

— Will Myers (@wjamyers) December 23, 2020

pic.twitter.com/BndCxKcklV

— No Name is Safe (@themaninbpt) December 23, 2020

Well played.

— On Ground Beef and Certainty (Danny Earl Simmons) (@OnGBandC) December 23, 2020

Brilliantly subtle sarcasm https://t.co/IjA78wbASX

— Gary Collard (@LakerGMC) December 23, 2020

Most indeededly.

Yeah but @nhannahjones lmao

— Sunni Labeouf (@keylockgo) December 23, 2020

Lol

1619 is still up ?

— David (@Dawidaltexian) December 23, 2020

Well, yeah. You know, “standards.”