Slate Error on Benedict’s Speech Corrected
I mentioned to you the other day that Slate‘s Timothy Noah had incorrectly accused Pope Benedict of altering his speech after the fact to include language distancing himself from a controversial viewpoint on Islam. I noted that Stuart Buck had proven conclusively that the distancing language was in Benedict’s original, and encouraged you to write Slate/Noah to seek a correction. I don’t know if any of you did, but someone apparently did. The correction has been issued (see here and here). Thanks again to Stuart Buck for noting this.
A Correction…
Exactly a week ago, Allah wrote a post at Hot Air drawing attention to a piece at Slate by Timothy Noah, who was claiming that the Pope inserted language into the text of his infamous speech to lessen the blow……
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