Posted on 06/20/21
| News Source: Washington Examiner
The Babylon Bee scored a minor victory this weekend.
The New York Times has agreed to remove language from a March 19 report characterizing the conservative satire website as a “far-right misinformation site” that “sometimes trafficked in misinformation under the guise of satire.”
This is obviously a lie. The Babylon Bee just publishes jokes. It’s no different from the Onion or the New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz, except that, unlike the former, its jokes are tailored to a right-leaning audience and, unlike the latter, its jokes are actually funny. For some reason, members of the legacy press hate this.
Following the publication of the March 19 article, titled, “For Political Cartoonists, the Irony Was That Facebook Didn’t Recognize Irony,” the Babylon Bee sent the New York Times a demand letter accusing the paper of record of defamation.
This weekend, nearly three months after the fact, the conservative group got a response from the New York Times’s senior counsel.
“We have carefully reviewed the the [sic] concerns raised in your letter and, in response to those concerns, we have removed the reference to the Babylon Bee from the article and appended a correction,” attorney Dana Green said.