USA Today managed to have it on the front page.
Should I reply to this letter or let it go? The "thanks for holding us up to a higher standards" truly made me want to hurt somebody.
borders@nytimes.com
Stealing classified documents, not once, not twice, not three times, not four times, but possibly five times....major media won't be able to sweep this under the carpet and spin for the Clintons.
This one has too much of a head of steam. We got the daily blitz of Abu Ghraib, which actually happened last October. That could explain why the media were just too busy to break the Berger thefts, which happened (IIRC) actually last November and the investigation started in January or February.
(Ironically, this story seems closely patterned to Abu Ghraib---which was investigated in January-February but didn't stir much press ink until the photos were released in April.)
Kudos, Red!
I'll have to check the L.A. Times tomorrow. I didn't see the story on the front page.
The story broke late? I think I saw it on FR after 8pm, EDT. Newspapers wait up after midnight to report the winner of the SuperBowl and all the Oscars. Is the NYT saying that this story is less important than the winner of the SuperBowl or Best Picture at the Academy Awards?
The NY Times has an early deadline, something like 11 p.m. Eastern. The editor may be telling the truth.
While Sandy had paper in his pants, you are getting smoke blown up yours.
Dear Mr. Red
Please act upon your instincts.
Go kick the hell out of some french canadian.
You'll feel better.
it does not really matter what you do, the are going to mislead you anyway, the NYTimes is garbage propaganda
Like Reagan said, trust but verify. See what they do tomorrow.
It was good that he replied. Tell him you will hold him to his word and send the email to Bill O'Reilly and FoxNews with a letter explaining its relevance, asking them to hold the NYTimes to account for their reporting on this story.
Do you not think that the revelation of Clinton Administration National Security adviser Sandy Berger taking classified memoes and documents in his pants and SOCKS deserves a little more coverage than seven paragraphs of AP wire copy on page SIXTEEN of your rotten biased paper?
And you scratch your heads and wonder why your circulation is dwindling? You are so blatantly biased to the loony left you are disgusting...a pox on you.
The story broke around 8PM EST. I first heard it on Michael Savage's program, around 8:10. Michael Savage quoted the AP report and he had much more information than the NY Times printed, including the part in which Berger says some of the documents had been "unintentionally discarded."
In addition to USA Today having the story on its front page, the NY Sun had it on its front page and the Wall Street Journal had a long writeup on page two.
So the NY Times is being disingenuous, to put it euphemistically. I think they were just hoping the story would go away.
Thanks all for the advise. My email to NY Times was not calm (I am a FEMALE redhead after all) but I wrote nothing about "evil intent". I brought up the story being on page 17 and asked how they would have treated the story if Condo Rice was in Berger's place. I also let it be known that they managed to get a rumor on the front page last week about Cheney being replace but relegated real hard news to page 17.
We will see what happens tomorrow.
The NY Times was probably waiting to see if the story had legs (and hoping it did not) before putting it on the front page. Now they will have to cover it to the very end no matter where the story leads.
Wait till they bury the story tomorrow, then send the turd a link to this thread!!!
You might want to point out to him that the Washington Post had a much longer article about the story, and it was on page 2. And they have similar timeframes as far as story deadlines.
Let's see what tomorrow's edition holds on the Berger theft and the Ketchup Gigolo's dropping of him; if they essentially ignore it, let's open up with both barrels.
I think the Times knows it has lost the respect it once had.
When I read the article, tomorrow, I will keep in mind all the points of distortion that Bob Kohn listed in his excellent book "Journalistic Fraud" ---- How the NYT distorts the news and why it can no longer be trusted.