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NYT Editor Offers Tepid Excuses for Lack of Van Jones Coverage
Newsbusters ^ | 9/9/09 | Lachlan Markay

Posted on 09/09/2009 3:37:24 PM PDT by Nachum

A top editor at the New York Times this week owned up to the paper’s lack of coverage of the controversy surrounding former Green Jobs Czar Van Jones. Rather than leaving it there, however, the editor noted the paper’s minimal online coverage, insisted that the Washington bureau was short-staffed, and suggested that Jones and his contentious positions really were not important enough to cover at length.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; editor; excuses; newsblackout; nyt; partisanmedia; tepid; vanjones
Yeah, that's the ticket...
1 posted on 09/09/2009 3:37:25 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Perhaps it wasn’t “fit to print.”


2 posted on 09/09/2009 3:41:54 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Meanwhile they cover Michelle’s upper arm workout.


3 posted on 09/09/2009 3:46:06 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Dr. Sivana

If the starvation of millions of kulaks in the USSR wasn’t fit to print then surely news regarding CommieCzar Jones wasn’t fit to print either.


4 posted on 09/09/2009 3:46:13 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: Nachum

O’Reilly gave her the talking points. As he told the incredulous Beck: Jones was a smallfry, not worthy of my radar screen.


5 posted on 09/09/2009 3:48:58 PM PDT by jobim
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To: Nachum

The same paper that covered up the millions killed in the Ukraine famine in the 30’s....so covering for Commies nothing new for the NYT


6 posted on 09/09/2009 3:51:11 PM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (Isolationism and Protectionism make a stronger nation than Idealism and Globalism)
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To: jobim
O'Reilly prolly has to marginalize Beck because Beck has begun to beat O'Reilly in the nightly ratings. Beck is stomping BOR's 8:00 numbers at 5:00!

But seriously, I suspect BOR is just putting on a show for FNC viewers by pooh-poohing Beck's work on Van Jones as an exercise in tongue-in-cheek macho rivalry in order to ramp up both men's ratings.

That's usually how TV works: they're always looking for a 'narrative' to hook more viewers. But since I don't watch either show, I couldn't say for sure. ;-)

7 posted on 09/09/2009 4:06:50 PM PDT by leilani
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To: Nachum
I guess they figure one communist hiring another is not really surprising.

I guess I can see that logic.

8 posted on 09/09/2009 4:08:19 PM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: Nachum
"Dog ate my homework" type excuse.

Hard to imagine at one time this paper made or broke any politician of the day.

Now it barely ranks above bird cage lining

9 posted on 09/09/2009 4:25:22 PM PDT by Popman (Obama "may" be a US citizen, but he's not an American)
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To: Nachum

They seemed to find someone to cover Scooter Libby for his crime of the century. What hypocrites.

Pray for the Tea Party Express


10 posted on 09/09/2009 4:41:54 PM PDT by bray (He's a Divider not a Uniter)
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To: Nachum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ysSSmvMBEc

the New York Times (Pinch) on Suicide Watch (above link)....HAHAHAHA


11 posted on 09/09/2009 4:46:51 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Nachum

I guess Jacko’s funeral took precedence...or maybe Jessica Simpson’s new hairstyle...


12 posted on 09/09/2009 4:51:51 PM PDT by wac3rd (Felipe Calderon supports the public option.)
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To: Nachum
“The Times was, in fact, a beat behind on this story,” admitted Jill Abramson, managing editor of the paper, in answer to a number of readers’ questions during an online Q&A session Monday.

Did she have a straight face when she said this? We're people in the room winking and nodding and rolling on the floor laughing?

I know what conservatives were doing... we were rolling our eyes... and stunned they would offer something so transparently untrue.

If Bush had appointed a known NAZI who called dems assh-les, and thought liberals "deserved" to die in terrorists attacks... I think the New York Times would have been on that story like white on rice.

Long story short - I don't believe them. I believe the New York Times is lying to us or lying to themselves or both.

13 posted on 09/09/2009 7:05:48 PM PDT by GOPJ (Who received the Van Jones FBI reports and who over-ruled the findings? fr:thouworm)
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To: vbmoneyspender; abb
If the starvation of millions of kulaks in the USSR wasn’t fit to print then surely news regarding CommieCzar Jones wasn’t fit to print either.

Can they win a Pulitzer for NOT covering a story? Maybe that should be a new category for the liberal "prize"....

abb, you might want to ping your list to this one...

14 posted on 09/09/2009 8:24:29 PM PDT by GOPJ (Who received the Van Jones FBI reports and who over-ruled the findings? fr:thouworm)
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