NYT East Africa Bureau Chief Still Paying the Price for Mugabe Error

Jeffrey Gettleman was led further astray by a fellow journalist in Zimbabwe.

Over the weekend, Jeffrey Gettleman, East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times, tweeted the following:

He is referring to an article that appeared online Nov. 4 and in print Nov. 5. A correction was added Nov. 6, explaining that some incendiary remarks attributed to Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe were in fact made up.

The source of the fakery was a Nov.

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