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| NY Post Stomps Stuffings Out Of NY Times LOL!!! |
| 2005-04-10 |
| The New York Times Wednesday pub lished an apology of sorts for its re cent news article on a questionable report that absolved Columbia University's Middle East Studies department of anti-Israel bias. In an Editor's Note, the paper acknowledged that its reporter had been given an advance copy of the whitewash "on the condition that the writer not seek reaction from other interested parties." In other words, the Times agreed not speak to anyone who might challenge the report's contents until after the article had been published. And so it was: The article was first published on the paper's Web site — and then on the Times' front page — without reaction except from a professor who was criticized in the report. The paper now admits the article "should not have appeared" in such a one-sided and biased form because the Times has a "policy" in which "writers are not permitted to forgo follow-up reporting in exchange for information." According to the paper, "editors and the writer did not recall the policy." Did not recall? It's axiomatic that every news story has at least two sides — and that reporters must do their best to report them. This isn't peculiar to The New York Times: It's the first rule of journalism — drilled into every reporter from Day One. If the Times has reporters — and, more importantly, editors — who don't get this, then its credibility problems apparently did not end with the firing two years ago of serial fabulist Jayson Blair. Dead Solid Perfect Slam Dunk Bitch Slap. Heh. |
| Posted by:.com |
| #2 For a couple of decades now the NYT has made "facts" fit its extreme left ideology. |
| Posted by: Glereper Craviter7929 2005-04-10 11:13:05 AM |
| #1 On one of my first trips to New York I decided to take the subway, and I made a point of buyng a copy of the NYT so I would "blend." And then I realized that everyone on the subway was reading the Post. |
| Posted by: Matt 2005-04-10 10:59:28 AM |