At the mercy of Serbophobic stereotypes: The New York Times confused Vucic with Thaci
Talking about the cancellation of Saturday's meeting in Washington between the Serbian leadership and the top of the Kosovo separatists, one of the most famous American publications, The New York Times, wrote on Twitter that this was due to “accusations of the Serbian President of war crimes.”
This was reported by the RTS TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
On Twitter, The New York Times reported (with reference to the article) that a meeting between representatives of Belgrade and Pristina in Washington, mediated by Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Kosovo settlement, Richard Grenell, was canceled due to the fact that “the leader of Serbia was accused of war crimes.” At the same time, however, the publication placed under this message a photo of Hashim Thaci with the caption “leader of Kosovo.”
Subscribers to the NYT page rightly pointed out the discrepancy between the picture and the information, and the information itself with reality, but even after that the message did not change for many hours. As a result, Richard Grenell himself commented on the tweet, writing that he was not surprised by this error, since there were plenty of errors in the text of the publication, which he was also not surprised by, since the author did not even contact him for information or ask him to comment on the situation.
Richard Grenell.
After this, a tweet spat occurred between Richard Grenell and the author of the text, journalist Patrick Kingsley. The latter complained that, starting in February of this year, he tried 11 times to get a comment from a government official on various issues, but he stubbornly ignored him. In response, Grenell retorted that he refused to communicate with Kingsley because of his bias, which leads to numerous errors and inaccuracies in his texts.
A few hours later, the incorrect information was finally corrected.
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