DAWN EDEN - Post Archive Post (WWD retractrion)

This is not a post to The SHEEP'S CRIB, it is rather a copy of a retraction of a Women's Wear Daily smear linked to a post in the CRIB ...

DAWN FOR THE COUNT: New York Post copy editor Dawn Eden didn’t alter an editorial about stem-cell research, as reported in Memo Pad on Feb. 4. Her insertions were in a Jan. 9 news story about cancer victims using in-vitro fertilization to become pregnant. And although the news story changes did play a role in her dismissal from the Post, the official reason given was blogging on company time.Reporter Susan Edelman wrote in the Jan. 9 story, “She then had the embryos implanted, and two took.” Eden changed the copy to read, “One died. Two took.” Also in the piece, Edelman referred to the dangers pregnancy poses to cancer patients’ health, saying, “Experts have ethical qualms about this ‘Russian roulette’ path to parenthood.” Eden added, “which, when in-vitro fertilization is involved, routinely results in the destruction of embryos.” “I inserted factual information,” Eden said on Wednesday. “It’s not my opinion. It’s scientifically verifiable fact.” Eden added, “My boss told me Susan Edelman went into my personal blog where she discovered my views, which she — or an editor — reported back to [Post editor in chief] Col Allan.” The blog entry that ultimately led to Eden’s dismissal was posted during normal business hours and had to do with a contest soliciting renderings of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger speaking at a Ku Klux Klan rally. “My boss told me when I was hired that when I wasn’t working on a story, my time was my own and I was free to use the Internet,” said Eden. “The fact that [Allan] would personally fire a copy editor over one blog entry made on the job shows there is something more going on here.” Eden, who has had several job interviews since her termination and hopes to continue editing and writing, claimed that other employees at the Post frequently blog on company time without incident. — S.J.