This was precisely the case with the lab leak theory, according to which Covid-19 emerged from the lab in Wuhan that studies coronaviruses. By appending it to any claim, the lever pullers of power are able to marginalise not just the claim but those daring to make it. That last term, conspiracy theory, has become a shibboleth of the coastal elite who run American media. At the heart of the paper’s first story about the company was an alarming claim that the “tiny” (read: innocent) company was being subjected to an onslaught of Right-wing conspiracy theories. On national TV, she claimed that Michael Bloomberg could have given each of America’s 330 million people one million dollars instead of spending $500 million dollars on his presidential campaign.īut the Konnech correction points to a much more serious problem than the Times ’s inability to work with large numbers. And as T imes editorial board member Mara Gay demonstrated, m aths clearly is not the NYT’s strong suit either. The Times issued a correction earlier this year after confusing $100 billion with $100 million and, just this month, for doing the same with 140 billion and 140 million cubic meters. Observers swiftly noted that, using the Times ’s own (erroneous) calculation, that “burden” would be 20 pence per household. The Times recently dragged the Queen into its endless Comedy of Corrections when it claimed the cost to taxpayers for Her Majesty’s funeral would come with a “hefty price tag” amid rising inflation. Among media insiders, New York Times corrections are a source of endless hilarity, almost a byword for journalistic haplessness.
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