The Last Word on Standing Room Seats

May 22nd, 2006 | By Jared Blank

Here’s the last word on the now-discredited story (mentioned here twice) about standing room seats that appeared in the NY Times. The Times’ ombudsman published an article on Sunday explaining how such a flat-out wrong article appeared on page 1 of the Times. (Answer? None of the editors really questionned the facts in the article.) I shall never mention this again.

Probably.

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Philippe May 22nd, 2006 7:49 am :
I visited Airbus last week, and here is what they are studying :

http://avionsdeligne.info/2006/05/etat_de_siege.php

Sorry it is french, but you have a picture of the envisionned seat.
dday May 23rd, 2006 3:27 pm :
What, the NY Times prints false information?

And Judy Miller DIDN’T write it?

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