All The Blame That's Fit To Print

[stevedeshazer]

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2005/10/24/publiceye/entry968345.shtml

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There’s no shortage of schadenfreude being experienced over The New York Times’ problems. Those with one bone or another to pick with Judy Miller, bloggers who chant the mantra of MSM demise and critics of the war in Iraq are just a few who are reveling in the now-very public internal fighting at the paper.

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Not praise for the mess they find themselves in, surely. Miller’s pre-war stories about weapons of mass destruction, the paper’s apology for them, not to mention Miller’s still-curious role in the Valerie Plame case are among the things the Times’ has been suffering from for some time, and will continue to haunt them in the foreseeable future. And while Miller’s attorney, Robert Bennett, may be right about old scores being settled, at least we’re seeing a public airing of it all.

The Times’ lengthy reporting on Miller and her involvement with the grand jury, and her own first-person account last week, led to this weekend’s burst of discussion. Not all of it pretty, but out there for everyone to see. What kicked off this round was a memo to the paper’s staff from Executive Editor Bill Keller, who apologized for not taking up the issue of the WMD reporting earlier, writing:

“By waiting a year to own up to our mistakes, we allowed the anger inside and outside the paper to fester. Worse, we fear, we fostered an impression that The Times put a higher premium on protecting its reporters than on coming clean with its readers. If we had lanced the WMD boil earlier, we might have damped any suspicion that THIS time, the paper was putting the defense of a reporter above the duty to its readers.”

[endarkenment]

1. They owe Jason Blair an apology too.

Obviously black male reporters at the NYT are held to a different standard than white female reporters. Seems to me that deliberately putting lies into print ought to be sex and race neutral as far as the administrative measures taken to correct the problem goes.

[stevedeshazer]

5. That's exactly my first thought when I read this.

I'm glad you picked up on it.

[Village Idiot]

2. Another batch of Bull$hit!!!

“By waiting a year to own up to our mistakes, we allowed the anger inside and outside the paper to fester. Worse, we fear, we fostered an impression that The Times put a higher premium on protecting its reporters than on coming clean with its readers. If we had lanced the WMD boil earlier, we might have damped any suspicion that THIS time, the paper was putting the defense of a reporter above the duty to its readers.”

We didn't buy it the first time - what makes them think we'll buy it two and a half years later???

[longship]

3. CBS, it's not schadenfreude!!

It is not bad to be happy about criminals being held accountable.
It's not called schadenfreude, it's called justice.

[underpants]

4. NYT "apology" on WMD here (It is anything but an apology)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/international/middleeast/26FTE_NOTE.html?ex=1120881600&en=1bd452bb4c3112ea&ei=5070