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One of New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan’s recommendations to her paper for improving its coverage of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is “Stop straining for symmetry.” It’s advice she seems reluctant to take herself.
Anything that hurts labor unions, workers and moves Democrats to the right must be something to cheer about.
The New York Times makes some curious choices in its coverage of the victim in the Ferguson, Missouri, police shooting.
Apparently the people who know best about what’s happening in Ukraine are US government officials who won’t let their names be printed in the newspaper.
The New York Times decided to walk back its story once there was skepticism about the photos they had been supplied. Will NBC do the same thing for its viewers?
Some stories are easy to understand–or would be, if media reported the facts without so much spin. As hard as it might be to believe, the roots of the current Israel/Palestine negotiating impasse is one of those stories.
In her take on Michael Hastings’ obit, New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan said that while “the obituary…is not factually inaccurate, as far as I can tell,” she said it “seems to diminish his work’s legitimacy.”
The compelling interest in the public knowing that a high-ranking public official has taken part in highly controversial and perhaps even illegal actions, in the view of these news outlets, is apparently outweighed by their duty, as they see it, to keep the government’s secrets.
Non-violent protesters came up with a novel way to protest Israeli plans to build more settlement colonies in the occupied West Bank: They occupied the land themselves. The New York Times reported the news on Saturday. But the most remarkable thing is what they did with the headline.
An New York Times editor doesn’t seem to think checking the integrity of your argument is the business of the Paper of Record.
