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FA few years ago, I wrote to the New York Times when they stated in an article that Zlatan’s own verb “Zlatanera” was now in the Swedish Academy Glossary (SAOL). The reporter had confused the official glossary with the Language Council’s annual list of new words. Maybe it’s a ridiculous thing to hold onto, but the right thing should be the right thing, I thought. The answer fell into the mailbox a few days later: “Interesting objections, but I have not seen anything to contradict the word being in the Swedish dictionary.” This despite the fact that I had posted a link to SAOL, where the word does not exist.
I remember this when the “Caliphate” podcast series, the New York Times flagship for sound journalism, has proven to be a castle in the air. The series is about a man who was an executioner in the Islamic State (IS), with countless bestial murders on his conscience. The problem is that he has made it all up and the New York Times, a very high-profile publication, has been fooled. After this was revealed and investigated, they have now been forced to radically cut the podcast and provide each section with a comment explaining the background.
