Robert Worth on Lebanon:and when the New York Times sneakily corrects its mistake on the web

I read my morning New York Times and I made a mental note to comment on two points in the article by Worth. 1) the paper edition of the paper contained a reference to the assassination of Kamal Jumblat and said that he was killed in a car bomb. Of course, he was not killed in a car bomb but was shot by clumsy Syrian soldiers who left the car behind (it broke down) and had fake Iraqi license plates to incriminate the Iraqi regime, although they left audio cassettes containing Syrian Ba`thist songs in them. So I went to the website of the time and noticed (YET AGAIN) that the New York Times now regularly sneakily--without even alerting the readers--corrects its mistakes. The reference to the car bomb was thus changed: "the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt visited Damascus just weeks after his own father was killed in an attack." 2) Notice that New York Times foreign dispatches now regularly talk to one side of foreign conflicts: the side that is aligned with the US. I mean, more than 90% of Lebanese Shi`ites (the single largest sect in the country) voted for the two parties that aligned with the Syrian regime, and Gen. `Awn (a new ally of Syria) received a plurality (at least) of votes among Lebanese Christians, yet the article did not cite one voice among the allies of Syria. And notice when it talks about Lebanese public opinion, it really is referring to March 14 Lebanese opinion. I doubt very much that foreign correspondents in Lebanon ever venture into the southern suburbs of Beirut.