Comment 58660

By highwater (registered) | Posted January 28, 2011 at 19:42:19 in reply to Comment 58652

Nice try amsterdam, but no. You suggested that Joey's honest mistake never would have made it into a 'credible' newspaper, and I posted a link that illustrates the absurdity of your assertion that such a thing as a credible newspaper exists.

Nor was the link about 'a wrongful article' that made it into the NYT as if by accident, but in fact a series of articles that had an enormous influence on public support for the Iraq war, that turned out have been based on unvetted sources, journalistic malpractise, and a failure of editorial oversight that goes far, far beyond 'flawed'. Not only that, but the articles in question were being printed at the same time that the NYT was being rocked by the Jayson Blair scandal.

The lapses in integrity on the part of professional journalists and editors that took place at the NYT in the first half of the last decade, did permanent damage to the very idea of a 'credible' newspaper. Your suggestion that a relatively minor, honest mistake like Joey's wouldn't have happened at such an institution is laughable.

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