New York Times in Corrective Therapy

 http://www.aim.org/media_monitor_print/4115_0_2_0/
The Times has been getting away with this kind of thing for years.

Veteran researchers know that the New York Times is a transmission belt 
(mouthpiece) for the elite power structure in Washington and New York. It 
prides itself as being the "newspaper of record" for the country with its 
motto, "All the news that's fit to print." A more fitting title is the one 
given his book by former Times International editor Herman Dinsmore, "All the 
news that fits." At any rate, the news that is emphasized in the Times is what 
the power structure wants the public to believe, whether or not it is true or 
merely diversionary.

Judith Miller should be fired, indicted, sent to jail (for ten to twenty years) 
and be stripped of her Pulitzer Prize. Others like Krugman and Rich deserve a 
similar fate. The Times credibility rating has sunk to the level (or below) 
that of what the Naational Inquirer used to be. - JR


New York Times in Corrective Therapy 
By Roger Aronoff  |  October 25, 2005 
One had to wonder whether corrections would eventually make up more of the 
paper than the stories themselves.  

The New York Times has begun a new correction policy for its editorial and 
op-ed pages. It came as a flurry of mistakes, large and small, cluttered the 
Times op-ed pages. One had to wonder whether corrections would eventually make 
up more of the paper than the stories themselves.

Among the recent offenses are Paul Krugman's columns of August 19th, 22nd and 
26th, in which he makes varying claims about the outcome of the Florida 
presidential election in 2000, and how "Two different news media consortiums 
reviewed Florida's ballots; both found that a full manual recount would have 
given the election to Mr. Gore." Poor guy must be counting hanging chads in his 
sleep.

With pressure from new-media types like Donald Luskin, who writes columns for 
National Review Online under the heading "Krugman Truth Squad," and 
Powerlineblog.com, the Times has been forced to publicly slap the wrists of not 
only Krugman but Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich.

The Times' public editor, Byron Calame, the subject of one of our recent 
commentaries, did his duty. Calame went after Gail Collins, the editor of the 
editorial page, over her treatment of Krugman: "in the opinion section of The 
Times, the corrections policy of Gail Collins, the editor of the editorial 
page, is not being fully enforced. As I have written on my Web journal, Paul 
Krugman has not been required to correct, in the paper, recent acknowledged 
factual errors in his column about the 2000 election in Florida." He criticized 
Krugman four times in columns for his failure to set the record straight.

It became so embarrassing that Editor & Publisher ran an article on October 1st 
that was headlined, "NY Times Finally Runs Full Correction on Krugman Column, 
Announces New Policy." On that day, in the print edition of the Times, Collins 
declared a new policy on noting errors on the editorial pages.