America’s self-anointed newspaper of record admitted today that its most successful terrorism reporter fell for blatantly false claims about ISIS, despite plenty of red flags.
The New York Times’ hit podcast “Caliphate” chronicled the story of an easily-manipulated westerner seduced by the terrorist organization to committing depraved acts of violence. The paper’s executive editor revealed that reporter Rukmini Callimachi and his superiors didn’t scrutinize the podcast’s primary source, who’s now facing criminal charges. (NPR)
Caliphate relayed the tale about the radicalization of a young Canadian who went to Syria, joined the Islamic State and became an executioner for the extremist group before escaping its hold.
Canadian authorities this fall accused the man, Shehroze Chaudhry, of lying about those activities. He currently faces criminal charges in a federal court in Ontario of perpetrating a terrorism hoax.
“We fell in love with the fact that we had gotten a member of ISIS who would describe his life in the caliphate and would describe his crimes,” New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet tells NPR in an interview on Thursday. “I think we were so in love with it that when when we saw evidence that maybe he was a fabulist, when we saw evidence that he was making some of it up, we didn’t listen hard enough.”
The highly produced series was announced to much fanfare in March 2018 at the South By Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas, as a worthy successor to the paper’s hit news podcast, The Daily.
“Caliphate” previously won universal acclaim from the left for its compelling content.
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