Clark Hoyt

NYT's Public Editor Rides to Liberal Reporter's Defense, Ignores Smear of U.S. Vets
By Clay Waters | January 21, 2008 | 3:13 PM EST

New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt got angry this week. Not at the Times' shoddy, statistically worthless slam of U.S. veterans that appeared on last Sunday's front page (next week, perhaps?), but at conservative blogger Ed Whelan, for having the temerity of bringing up a possible conflict of interest involving the Times' Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse.

This Just In: Internet Comments Often Rude, Vitriolic, Says NY Times
By Clay Waters | November 5, 2007 | 4:57 PM EST

New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt's Sunday column, "Civil Discourse, Meet the Internet," delivered some piping hot news, circa year 2000: Web comments can often be rude and crude.

NYT Confesses: Mistake to Grant MoveOn.org Deep Discount
By Clay Waters | September 24, 2007 | 10:25 AM EDT

Over at Times Watch, I've been pretty hard on New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt -- finding most of the biweekly columns from the paper's inside watchdog to suffer from either an excess of corporate loyalty or to be simply pointless (when he's not sniping at the paper from the left).