D’Souza, who wrote, “there are a couple of minor errors that are completely inconsequential what the critics are fuming about are not factual errors but disagreements of interpretation.” Kathleen Sweetapple, a publicist for Regnery, e-mailed a statement on behalf of Mr. D’Souza’s book “The Roots of Obama’s Rage,” which is being published by Regnery Publishing and will be released on Oct. Begley said, “It’s an internal process and Steve Forbes is editor in chief.” His title is chief product officer he oversees the editorial content of both the Web site and the magazine but he is not the editor in chief. D’Vorkin is trying to replicate that model at Forbes. D’Vorkin’s freelance journalism Web site, and in some respects Mr. The controversy coincides with a redesign of Forbes under its new editorial overseer, Lewis D’Vorkin. Obama did not focus in the speech on “cleanup strategies.” Forbes’ correction stated, “Obama’s speech did discuss concrete measures to investigate the oil spill and bring it under control.” The Forbes spokeswoman said that the correction put an end to the magazine’s review of the matter. Obama from a speech he gave about the BP oil spill. On Thursday, the magazine issued a minor correction on its Web site, saying that Mr.
D’Souza is not a staff writer and sometimes elevating opinion above rigorous reporting. In one sense, the episode was a cautionary tale for the new media age, which finds traditional media outlets like Forbes responding both to the economic imperatives of the digital age by cutting staff and to the editorial imperatives by bringing in more outside voices Mr. Gibbs but that the decision to check the article was made not in response to the White House but to the general clamor in the news media. Monie Begley, a spokeswoman for Forbes, said that the magazine’s Washington bureau chief, who was not involved in the article, had met with Mr.
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When Forbes published a cover story this month by Dinesh D’Souza, the conservative author, asserting that President Obama is opposed to free markets and traditional American values because he inherited his father’s anticolonial beliefs, all the media tripwires were set off: enthusiastic support by conservative commentators like Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh, and an uproar among liberal bloggers and columnists.īut after a meeting last week with the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, the magazine, which initially defended the article, agreed to a post-publication fact-checking process to see if an apology or a correction was warranted, according to Bill Burton, a White House spokesman.
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