Posted on 01/04/2006 5:35:40 PM PST by pissant
Media: The New York Times is under fire from the left and right over the handling of its wiretapping story. But that's just the latest in a pattern of embarrassing mistakes and misdeeds by the "paper of record."
It's been all the blues that's fit to print for The New York Times reporters, editors and brass lately. The memory of the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal was just fading when veteran Washington reporter Judith Miller was jailed for 85 days for protecting a source — then promptly shown the door amid suggestions of receiving more than leaks from her contacts.
It might have helped if Miller weren't resented by others at the Times for lacking a liberal political agenda.
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TU, LOL. But I agree.
I tried the NYT for lining my bird's cage, and it up an died on me.
Overexposure to liberals was the vet's estimate of what happened.
Isn't a Tarpon a salmonoid found in Eastern Russia?
I agree. I hadn't heard any of that before. Thanks for the illuminating analysis.
Crab Wrapper
LOL! Your a piece of work! :)
Very good observations and assessment. Thanks for sharing it.
Damn, I need you on my BBQ, not posting to my threads. LOL
Long overdue, I might add.
Oh, the old gray mare,
She ain't what she used to be,
Ain't what she used to be,
Oh, the old gray mare,
She ain't what she used to be,
Many long years ago
Many long years ago.
Actually, she's the same old hag but she's losing her ability shovel the BS on the masses and get away with it.
That's the best I've seen Pinchy Sulzberger look in ages.
It hasn't changed it stripes since it took the side of the USSR in the cold war.
Amen to that. And we can thank Rush for demonstrating how powerful the MSM alternative can be.
You have to ask yourself, who would be stupid enough to advertize in the Times these days?
Maybe truth in advertising doesn't apply to the NYT.
One of my favorite expressions (reserved for special people). As an artist and struggling writer...thx
Not much time to take this one apart properly, but New York Times' Adam Cohen today holds bloggers up to ethical standards which, he argues, ought to equal the high...
Not much time to take this one apart properly, but New York Times' Adam Cohen today holds bloggers up to ethical standards which, he argues, ought to equal the high standards of those in the MSM.
While we agree with much of his thesis in general, one wonders if he ought to be throwing such stones from inside the Times' own fragile glass house.
This finger-wagging quote -- "Information should be verified before it is printed" -- amongst others, strikes one as more than just a tad ironic coming from the paper who allowed buckets of front page ink for Judith Miller to post un-verified information which helped march the world directly into a (so far) endless war.
Ms. Miller still works at -- and presumably collects a handsome salary from -- New York Times in the bargain. As she doesn't seem to have been held up to any particular set of ethics in the bargain, wouldn't Cohen's criticism be better directed homeward right about now?
Blogs, it seems, in Cohen's article are all tossed into the same ethically-challenged, non-journalistic barrel. All of us, apparently, require an "ethical upgrade" in Cohen's condescending opinion. True, we suppose, in as much as it would be appropriate for us to criticize the Times themselves for "reporting" done by super-market tabloids such as Weekly World News.
By way of example, here's just one graf from Cohen's piece:
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