More fabrications at the New York Times

I guess those four or five editors David Shaw insists check every journalist's story screwed up again. A Boston Globe ran a story by Barbara Stewart on a Canadian seal hunt that wasn't. The story ran on Wednesday. The seal hunt was delayed until Friday, but it didn't deter Ms. Stewart or her four or five editors. The Boston Globe retracted the story and noted she had fabricated details. What a shocker!

Ms. Stewart is not without credentials. She worked for the New York Times for a decade, according to a Newsday story, something the Boston Globe neglects to mention at all in the retraction. Now how could they forget that???? Hmmmm?

UPDATE: Boston Herald reports that Barbara Stewart worked as a reporter on the Times' metro desk where, among other things, Stewart worked on ``Portraits of Grief'' vignettes about 9/11 victims.