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While @TheArtNewspaper& #39;s initial reporting on Latchford& #39;s death was shameful, THIS one is full of claims that are demonstratably untrue. I& #39;ve never called for a retraction before. This one warrants that and an apology. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/douglas-latchford-reactions">https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/doug...
1) Claim: "Back in 2013, @TheArtNewspaper was the first media outlet... to publish a comprehensive account of the looting of Koh Ker."
2) Fact. Tom Mashberg & Ralph Blumenthal broke this story on the front page of the New York Times in 2012. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/arts/design/sothebys-caught-in-dispute-over-prized-cambodian-statue.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/2...
3) Fact. Paul Vrieze of the Cambodia Daily, who had been pursuing the story himself along with Mashberg and Blumenthal, followed directly after, again in March 2012.
4) Following @nytimesarts& #39; initial break, Mashberg and Blumenthal did over a dozen followup stories, a number of which again made the front page. Mashberg even journeyed to Cambodia that same year—again a year before @TheArtNewspaper claims it broke the "comprehensive account."
5) This was happening alongside dedicated investigations by @jasonfelch then of the @latimes, which along with @nytimesarts revealed the existence of pieces looted from Koh Ker in museums from coast to coast. Still in 2012.
6) @TheArtNewspaper also claims: "A member of the NY DA’s Office said that the [2013] article, which included a series of damning internal emails from Sotheby’s, might & #39;well have helped the auction house to do the right thing.& #39;
7) Fact. Sotheby& #39;s internal e-mails came out not in @TheArtNewspaper, but in a federal complaint, which was issued in April 2012 then amended with additional information in November. Which broke, by the way, in @nytimes (again by Mashberg and Blumenthal).
8) Oh and you have the wrong prosecutors. The case was not tried by the New York DA& #39;s Office (as much as we love them!) but by @SDNYnews. And, again, this happened a YEAR before @TheArtNewspaper& #39;s "investigation."
9) I had the honor of working with the agents, prosecutors, officials, archaeologists, journalists, & art market leaders who actually did work TIRELESSLY to investigate and return Koh Ker& #39;s treasures. These cases were their life & mine for YEARS.
10) That @TheArtNewspaper takes credit for this work is embarrassing—that it does so while whitewashing the sins of the man who made it necessary is near unforgivable. Please retract & apologize to @TMashberg, Blumenthal, Vrieze, @jasonfelch, @SDNYnews, @ICEgov & all of Cambodia.
11) And yes I mean the entire country of Cambodia. People there put their lives at risk to reveal what happened at Koh Ker—including Latchford& #39;s undeniable role.
Can anyone at @TheArtNewspaper say that?
Can anyone at @TheArtNewspaper say that?
12) Sorry I keep finding more errors. You spelled the capital of Cambodia wrong. It& #39;s Phnom Penh with an "h."
