NEW YORK TIMES: ‘CALIPHATE’ PODCAST DIDN’T MEET STANDARDS.

The New York Times admitted Friday that it could not verify the claims of a Canadian man whose account of committing atrocities for the Islamic State in Syria was a central part of its 2018 podcast “Caliphate.”

The series was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and had won a Peabody Award, the first ever for a podcast produced by the newspaper. Peabody administrators said the Times would return the award.

With a major hole blown in the narrative, the Times affixed an audio correction to the beginning of each part of the 12-part podcast and published an investigation into what went wrong with the story in Friday’s newspaper. The story’s central reporter, Rukmini Callimachi, will be reassigned off the terrorism beat, the Times said.

Dean Baquet, the paper’s executive editor, said in a podcast distributed Friday that “this failing wasn’t about any one reporter. I think this was an institutional failing.”

From Howell Raines and Jayson Blair to the “1619 Project” having its lunch eaten by leftist historians to the crybully staff getting the vapors over a Tom Cotton op-ed with majority approval, the Times, in their efforts to expand the Gramscian Damage, sure have been having a lot of those over the past 20 years.