NYT Discovers (Air) America -- Just Two Weeks Behind the Blogosphere
Buried on page 3 of today's Metro section (and apparently absent from the national edition entirely) is the NYT's first whisper of the financial scandal at left-wing radio network Air America. The crack NYT staff got to the story less than three weeks after the New York Daily News first picked up on it July 26. Not that the headline or subhead of the Times' story actually mention "Air…
New York Times Cleans up Franken Quote
A couple of years ago, there was a bit of a media firestorm, at least on the web, when New York Times' columnist Maureen Dowd was caught removing a portion of a comment that the President made. The omission rendered a clear and straightforward statement as a delusional and misleading one. Eventually the Times was forced to "correct" the quote.
Well, the New York times is "Dowdifying" quotes…
Newsworthy, or just newsworthy for the NY Times
There's an old joke about the New York Times that goes something like this; if the world were ending, the headline in the Times would read "World To End," with a sub-head reading "Women And Minorities Hardest Hit." Today's front page calls that to mind, as the center of the front page is devoted to a story on Entrenched Epidemic: Wife-Beatings in Africa...
Is It Safe? Don't Ask the NYT
"After Bombings, Few Signs Of Similar Attacks in U.S." -- August 1 headline, New York Times."Assessments Find Threat of Suicide Attacks in U.S.” -- August 5 headline, New York Times.
NYT Did Its Bit for (Quote) Recycling
The Pentagon has admitted an "egregious" fault in using the same quote from an anonymous Iraqi in two press releases 11 days apart.Besides one brief mention last week, however, there's been no comment from the New York Times, which is rather surprising -- or perhaps not, given the Times' own quote-recycling history.
