Quote, unquote

An article on Sunday about a military report that found that senior Marine Corps commanders had contributed to a “willful” failure to investigate the killing of 24 unarmed Iraqis by marines in the town of Haditha in 2005 misstated a word in a quotation from Brian J. Rooney, a lawyer for an officer punished in the Haditha matter. Mr. Rooney said his client, Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani, had promptly reported what he knew about the killings and “I don’t know how that’s untimely, inaccurate and incomplete.” He did not say “untimely, accurate and incomplete.” Link

A television review last Tuesday of the documentary “Gangs of Iraq” on PBS omitted a word in a quotation from a motivational speaker shown addressing Iraqi police trainees. He said, “‘I am not here to impose my American will upon you” — not “I am here.” A listing of credits with the review carried outdated information from PBS about the program’s producer and erroneously credited another executive. The producer is Marcela Gaviria — not Martin Smith, who was correctly identified in the article as the PBS correspondent. Sherry Jones is a senior producer — not an executive producer, the position held by David Fanning. Link