Editor and Publisher Just days after it ran an editors’ note–under pressure from outside and within–that sort of admitted it had erred in a blast at Fox News’ Gerald Rivera during the Katrina tragedy, The New York Times finally ran a full correction on Sunday, on its editorial page, for a miscue by columnist Paul Krugman, while announcing a new policy on noting errors on that page.
Krugman had three times previously admitted getting wrong part of his Aug. 19 column about media recounts of the 2000 Bush-Gore race, but critics kept claiming that he still hadn’t gotten it quite right. Editorial Page Editor Gail Collins wrote on Sunday that it had turned into a “correction run amok.”
After publishing his third correction on the Web, Krugman asked Collins, she wrote, “if he could refrain from revisiting the subject yet again in print. I agreed, feeling we had reached the point of cruelty to readers. But I was wrong. The correction should have run in the same newspaper where the original error and all its little offspring had appeared.”
Collins also announced that the paper would henceforth be running regular corrections and “for the record” explanations under the Times’ editorials. Today she published several in the “for the record” category. One notes that Krugman, Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich all incorrectly stated that former FEMA director Michael Brown went to college with his predecessor Joe Allbaugh. Another corrects where Mick Jagger made a certain statement about economics.
What does it say about the paper that they need to correct the same columnist 3 times on the same subject?
Did you miss the bio-terrorist attack in Washington DC on Sept. 24th?
Probably so since the Dept.of Homeland Security and the CDC did not publicly warn the nation to be on the look out for symptons of deadly Tulameria until last Friday nearly 6 days after the Peace march and Library of Congress National Book Fair when hundreds of thousands of people were in town.
This bio-terror weapon is extremely difficult to aerosolize and was detected by 6 bio-sensors in D.C. – it is not naturally occurring in DC and was NOT kicked up by dust/dirt from the rally goers… MORE here – http://www.catciao.blogspot.com
‘what does it say about this so called paper that they need to correct 3 times, its tells me the boys don’t want to tell the story and this media is under total control of someone we know nothing about.
The NYTimes will remain a paper in illrepute as along as the keep columnists like Krugman and don’t treat him as strictly as they do people the Times disagrees with.
Looks like the New York Pravda is making up for all the lies and half-truths but nothing will realy change at the NYT:razz:
wow! would you look at that; we get the “old grey lady” stuck in the ground and she just keeps on kicking her covers off (dirt)what are we gonna do (hand wringing and teeth knashing and grinding optional)lets just keep our vigilant scrutiny on her; we will be victorious!
ok! heres the deal this time–bury her (old grey lady) face down this time and watch her dig her way to china! (thats where the commies live) except for their minions in the us.