NEW ZEALAND WEBSITE SCOOP CATCHES OUT TIME MAGAZINE ON COVERED-UP STUFF UP OVER PUTIN BIRTH DATE
December 26th 2007 01:52
A New Zealand website, Scoop.co.nz, lived up to its name with its international scoop of publishing the original, and highly embarrassing transcript of the interview between Time magazine and Russia’s President Putin for Time’s Person of the Year award issue.
Time magazine was represented by editor in chief John Huey, Time managing editor Richard Stengel and deputy managing editor Adi Ignatius.
But between the three of them they couldn’t even get the year of Putin’s birth correct.
Time originally has Putin’s birth date as 1946, instead of the 1952 it should have been.
But Time then amended its so called original transcript of the interview that it published on its post, only to be brought undone by Scoop which published the original transcript.
This prompted Rory O’Connor’s Media is Plural blog site to comment ask if Time’s interview with Vladimir Putin was a fraudulent cover up?
Media is Plural said, “It appears so. A glaring factual error was apparently edited out of the transcript in an attempt to spare top executives embarrassment over an exchange at the beginning of the recent chat between the Russian leader and Time Inc editor in chief John Huey, Time managing editor Richard Stengel and deputy managing editor Adi Ignatius.
“The official version of the transcript, as it appears on Time’s web site, is prominently labeled “Putin Q&A: Full Transcript.” The supposedly complete “Q&A” posted there begins thus:
TIME: Despite the cold war, Russia and the United States have found themselves aligned in many of history’s big conflicts: World War I, World War II and now, thanks in large part to your response to 9/11, there seems to be some alignment in the war against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. With that history in mind, how do you envision the relationship between Russia and the U.S. going forward?
PUTIN: Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think there’s something objectively bringing us together in difficult times, and I think—I believe—it has to do with geopolitical interests and also has a moral component. Of course, the cold war marked a tragedy in relations between our two countries, and I wouldn’t want to see the vestiges of those relations prevailing in the future…”
But Media in Plural then reported that a “more ‘full and complete’ transcript has an entirely different beginning, one that makes Time’s senior executives look, well, a bit foolish – as well as incredibly obsequious:
QUESTION: Mr. President! First of all, I would like to thank you on behalf of all my colleagues for your hospitality today. Second, we consider that it is a great honour for us to be able to conduct this interview. Your cooperation with Time magazine means a lot to us. Its result will be a serious material, and quite broad in nature and scope.
I want to start with the first question. You were born in 1946 - I was born in 1948. We belong to the same generation. We grew up in countries that lived with the unavoidable presence of the enemy. But historically, and in most major conflicts - World War One, World War Two - Russia and the United States have been allies. And now, in large part thanks to your role, Russia is cooperating in the struggle against Islamic terrorism.
In view of our history, how would you predict the development of relations between Russia and the United States as they resolve global problems in the future? How would our generation assess their future prospects for cooperation?
VLADIMIR PUTIN: If you will allow me, I will correct you a little bit on certain dates. I could not have been born in 1946 because at that time my father was suffering from the wartime wounds and my mother survived the Leningrad blockade. After they had lost two children and their health it was unlikely that they could have thought of having another child right away. And I think it is for that reason that I was born a little later, in 1952. But this does not change the essence of the problems and the issues you raised - this is absolutely correct.”
The New York Post reported, “Time Inc editor-in-chief John Huey got off on the wrong foot when he sat down to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin, along with Time managing editor Rick Stengel and deputy managing editor Adi Ignatius. According to a "full and complete" transcript of the interview that first turned up on a New Zealand Web site, Huey started off a question about the Cold War by saying, "You were born in 1946 - I was born in 1948. We belong to the same generation." Putin gives the correct year of his birth, 1952. The exchange is missing from the "full transcript" posted on Time's Web site, and now some bloggers are screaming "fraudulent cover-up." But Time spokeswoman Ali Zelenko told Page Six that even "full" transcripts need some editing. "It's embarrassing, but it was a false start and they moved on. There's no cover-up. We knew the Kremlin was releasing its own transcript. It was a three-and-a-half-hour interview.”
- From MediaBlab
Time magazine was represented by editor in chief John Huey, Time managing editor Richard Stengel and deputy managing editor Adi Ignatius.
But between the three of them they couldn’t even get the year of Putin’s birth correct.
Time originally has Putin’s birth date as 1946, instead of the 1952 it should have been.
This prompted Rory O’Connor’s Media is Plural blog site to comment ask if Time’s interview with Vladimir Putin was a fraudulent cover up?
Media is Plural said, “It appears so. A glaring factual error was apparently edited out of the transcript in an attempt to spare top executives embarrassment over an exchange at the beginning of the recent chat between the Russian leader and Time Inc editor in chief John Huey, Time managing editor Richard Stengel and deputy managing editor Adi Ignatius.
“The official version of the transcript, as it appears on Time’s web site, is prominently labeled “Putin Q&A: Full Transcript.” The supposedly complete “Q&A” posted there begins thus:
TIME: Despite the cold war, Russia and the United States have found themselves aligned in many of history’s big conflicts: World War I, World War II and now, thanks in large part to your response to 9/11, there seems to be some alignment in the war against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. With that history in mind, how do you envision the relationship between Russia and the U.S. going forward?
But Media in Plural then reported that a “more ‘full and complete’ transcript has an entirely different beginning, one that makes Time’s senior executives look, well, a bit foolish – as well as incredibly obsequious:
QUESTION: Mr. President! First of all, I would like to thank you on behalf of all my colleagues for your hospitality today. Second, we consider that it is a great honour for us to be able to conduct this interview. Your cooperation with Time magazine means a lot to us. Its result will be a serious material, and quite broad in nature and scope.
I want to start with the first question. You were born in 1946 - I was born in 1948. We belong to the same generation. We grew up in countries that lived with the unavoidable presence of the enemy. But historically, and in most major conflicts - World War One, World War Two - Russia and the United States have been allies. And now, in large part thanks to your role, Russia is cooperating in the struggle against Islamic terrorism.
In view of our history, how would you predict the development of relations between Russia and the United States as they resolve global problems in the future? How would our generation assess their future prospects for cooperation?
VLADIMIR PUTIN: If you will allow me, I will correct you a little bit on certain dates. I could not have been born in 1946 because at that time my father was suffering from the wartime wounds and my mother survived the Leningrad blockade. After they had lost two children and their health it was unlikely that they could have thought of having another child right away. And I think it is for that reason that I was born a little later, in 1952. But this does not change the essence of the problems and the issues you raised - this is absolutely correct.”
The New York Post reported, “Time Inc editor-in-chief John Huey got off on the wrong foot when he sat down to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin, along with Time managing editor Rick Stengel and deputy managing editor Adi Ignatius. According to a "full and complete" transcript of the interview that first turned up on a New Zealand Web site, Huey started off a question about the Cold War by saying, "You were born in 1946 - I was born in 1948. We belong to the same generation." Putin gives the correct year of his birth, 1952. The exchange is missing from the "full transcript" posted on Time's Web site, and now some bloggers are screaming "fraudulent cover-up." But Time spokeswoman Ali Zelenko told Page Six that even "full" transcripts need some editing. "It's embarrassing, but it was a false start and they moved on. There's no cover-up. We knew the Kremlin was releasing its own transcript. It was a three-and-a-half-hour interview.”
- From MediaBlab
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