The New York Times metro section on October 24 featured a front-page article on a Cuban government-sponsored propaganda tour by a group of Cuban musicians. Smartertimes.com commented back then (https://www.smartertimes.com/archive/2001/10/011024.html) that the article showed how the Times' nearly slavish devotion to the Communist dictatorship on Cuba can descend to the point of self-parody.
Well, there's an interesting epilogue to that story. The Miami Herald reported on Tuesday that one of the Cuban rappers has defected from the New York propaganda tour and showed up in Miami instead of returning to Cuba. Funny how while the Times had plenty of room for the lengthy and puffy pro-Castro feature on the propaganda tour, complete with complaints about the American record industry and the lack of gun control here, it has not found any space in the paper to report the defection.
Unpublicized: A dispatch from London in today's New York Times reports that Prime Minister Blair "told the House of Commons that an unpublicized videotape of Mr. bin Laden showed him not only claiming responsibility for the terror attacks but preening over their success." It's not clear whether the description of the videotape as "unpublicized" is by the New York Times or by Mr. Blair, but it is inaccurate. The videotape was publicized by the Sunday Telegraph, which reported on November 11, "Osama Bin Laden has for the first time admitted that his al-Qa'eda group carried out the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, the Telegraph can reveal. In a previously undisclosed video which has been circulating for 14 days among his supporters, he confesses that 'history should be a witness that we are terrorists. Yes, we kill their innocents.'"
Can't Spell: An article in today's New York Times refers to the president of the University of Oklahoma as "David L. Boron." The former senator spells his name Boren, with an "e."