"We need to be more assertive about explaining ourselves - our decisions, our methods, our values, how we operate," the committee said, acknowledging that "there are those who love to hate The Times"' and suggesting a focus instead on people who do not have "fixed" opinions about the paper. A parallel goal of this strategy, the committee said, was to assure reporters "that they will be defended when they are subjected to unfair attack."

No one has done more to ruin the reputation of the NY Times than the NY Times. This answer of theirs that they're going to go on the offensive against critics shows just how totally out-of-touch-with- reality they really are. The country's "paper of record" attacking critics? Wow, does that show desperation! (And even more so a total misreading of what has brought them to this point.) Such tactics will only backfire as they always do. And how much more "assertive" can Sully, Dodo, Krugman, Rich etc. be with their shrielking, insanity, this kennel of vicious, little Liberal Lap Dogs?

The media seems very interested in documenting the sins of everyone except their own, don't they?

Good point. I find myself perpetually amazed at just how full of shit MSM Liberals really are.

"that they're going to go on the offensive against critics shows just how totally out-of-touch-with- reality they really are."

Yeah, this just makes them sound like a political organization (what they are) rather than a news organization (what they claim to be). They've forgotten that they're a business and that they've got to attract customers. Instead they've systematically shrunk their readership by having shoddy reporting standards and pandering to their upper east side buddies.

The committee said the system would not be used to compile error rates of individual reporters, noting that using raw numeric counts as part of a reporter's evaluation "would breed resentment."

Even though we're speaking about Liberals I am, like, speechless ... one might even say dumbfounded ...

Or was it just found dumb? Oh well ...

Let's see, I have factual errors in my work and management is afraid to document, quantify and keep track of them because they're afraid I'll "resent" it. I think not! I think management doesn't want a record and paper trail that will prove beyond any reasonable doubt the enormous quantity of bullshit they regularly spew out of their offices.