Two More Strikes
The storm clouds keep rolling in over the embroiled Grey Lady without any sign of silver linings.
“For the second time in less than a week, The New York Times today admitted to a serious error in a story. On Saturday it said it had misidentified a man featured in the iconic "hooded inmate" photograph from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Today it discloses that a woman it profiled on March 8 is not, in fact, a victim of Hurricane Katrina--and was arrested for fraud and grand larceny yesterday.” (From Editor & Publisher, “Another Bad Slip for 'NY Times': Katrina Victim Unmasked”)
At the rate they’re going, the New York Times will need to devote an entire section to correcting their errors.
“For the second time in less than a week, The New York Times today admitted to a serious error in a story. On Saturday it said it had misidentified a man featured in the iconic "hooded inmate" photograph from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Today it discloses that a woman it profiled on March 8 is not, in fact, a victim of Hurricane Katrina--and was arrested for fraud and grand larceny yesterday.” (From Editor & Publisher, “Another Bad Slip for 'NY Times': Katrina Victim Unmasked”)
At the rate they’re going, the New York Times will need to devote an entire section to correcting their errors.
posted by Money Politic$ at 3:59 PM
10 Comments:
All them "fact-check'rs must be in shock from looking at their stock-chart.
I can certainly understand how public admission of an error would be viewed as weakness by any Bush sycophant or Faux News viewer. A true sign of weakness is the inability to admit error.
BTW, has Larry every blogged a retraction of anything?
here you go LFC -- on 7/22/2005 Kudlow wrote this in the afternoon ...after thIS poor guy got shot in the AM.
"One Down
This morning, London police shot a man believed to be a suicide bomber as he was trying to board a train. Good. It's a shame they couldn't take him alive and get information out of him, but this sends a message, both about the fearlessness of the British authorities in hunting down terrorists and their skill in doing so."
Slight problem was the guy turned out to be INNOCENT AND WAS SHOT 7 TIMES IN THE HEAD AT CLOSE RANGE BY LONDON POLICE. THATS SOME "SKILL" !!
and no retraction by Kudlow. The hypocrisy continues ....
"At the rate they’re going, the New York Times will need to devote an entire section to correcting their errors."
Wouldn't it be easier to just highlight the things the NYT actually gets right? You could fit it into a smaller section, thus saving valuable column inches for even more Krugman screeds.
Wouldn't it be easier to just highlight the things the NYT actually gets right?
Spoken like a true blue Faux News fan.
At the rate they’re going, the New York Times will need to devote an entire section to correcting their errors.
What would really be troubling is if they did something totally asinine, and fired the people who got the story right (Lindsay, Shinseki) while keeping the people who got the story wrong (Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush, Powell, Tenet, Rice et al).
That would be troubling.
"At the rate they're going, the New York Times will need to devote an entire section to correcting their errors."
And at the rate their circulation numbers are going, it is hardly likely to matter.
Spoken like a true blue Faux News fan.
Delivered like a hardcore MSNBC/Chris Matthews junkie.
There are plenty of reasons for the NYT precipitous decline, and they start with the bias news reporting and "news analysis" editorializing in the front page. From there, the constant gender infatuation stories - women have a harder time getting in to college, women are finding that work and family are too much, women running fo roffice - and that schreeching Maureen Dowd and John Herbert.
But, let's imagine that they had a healthy news room. The paper is still falling apart. The Business Section is now running a distant third in NYC dailies, with the surprising ascendency of the NY Post taking second only to the WS Journal. The sports section had completely fallen apart, with virtually no college coverage, minimal box scores and treatises on labor law. Third again, with the Daily News taking the sports prize, and the Post coming in 2nd again with far more coprehensive coverage. And on specialties like arts, dining out, travel, etc., they have been eclipsed by the upstart NY Sun.
There is no reason to by the Times anymore.
I am a Libertarian (With Republican tendencies). I am running for School Board and I run a very active blog...
I read the New York Times when I get a chance. I get most of my news from Conservative sources and so I like to read the news from the Liberal side as well.
I think everyone should read news from BOTH sides.
Both sides lie.
Mike Sylvester
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