NYT's Public Editor Continues Being a Dick

And that's just jake by me.

He slams TV critic Alessandra Staley for incorrectly reporting that Geraldo Rivera "nudged" military personnel out of the way in order to help a wheelchair bound woman down some stairs. The tape simply shows no "nudge" at all; top Times honcho Bill Keller seems to be claiming that he "metaphorically nudged" people aside through grandstanding, and that's good enough to be reported as a literal, physical nudge, without correction.

He repeats that the Times is not enforcing its corrections policy as regards its editorial page's finest left-wing blogger in print format, Paul Krugman.

And then he notes that the Times, which has a policy now of posting substantive corrections in a "Corrections" column where minor errata (mispelled names, incorrect titles, etc.) are listed in a "For the Record" column, seems to be slipping quite a few substantive, important corrections into the "For the Record" list.

Thereby covering up how many big, important errors they actual make.

On f'n' fire. On. F'n'. Fire.

posted by Ace at 09:50 PM

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