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22-12-2008, 21:05
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D957V4EO0&show_article=1
NY Times published fake letter from Paris mayor
Dec 22 03:57 PM US/Eastern
By ANN LEVIN
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Times admitted Monday it published a fake letter purportedly from the mayor of Paris criticizing Caroline Kennedy's Senate bid as "appalling" and "not very democratic."
"What title has Ms. Kennedy to pretend to Hillary Clinton's seat?" the letter in Monday's editions said. "We French can only see a dynastic move of the vanishing Kennedy clan in the very country of the Bill of Rights. It is both surprising and appalling."
In an editor's note posted Monday on its Web site, the Times said the letter signed by Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe should not have been published because it violated the paper's standards and procedures.
"We have already expressed our regrets to Mr. Delanoe's office and we are now doing the same to you, our readers," the Times said.
The New York Times used to be a pillar of journalistic integrity - now it seems that they'll print just about anything - and instead of catching themselves at it, someone else catches them, and they have to print a retraction.
"All the news that's fit to print" seems to have turned into "If it fits on the page, we'll print it".
From the Jayson Blair incident, through the Judith Miller WMD in Iraq incident, and moving incident by incident to this latest one, it amazes me that the NYT could conceivably considered a valid source - especially on information that comes from high places or inside sources.
By no means is the NYT alone in this - but it seems to have fallen the furthest.
Is the demand for immediacy in news now destroying journalism? Is the demand to get the hot, inside story out on the Internet, out on the street before the bloggers break the story - is that demand driving the tradition of journalism into the corner?
Or is the NYT just lazy?
NY Times published fake letter from Paris mayor
Dec 22 03:57 PM US/Eastern
By ANN LEVIN
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Times admitted Monday it published a fake letter purportedly from the mayor of Paris criticizing Caroline Kennedy's Senate bid as "appalling" and "not very democratic."
"What title has Ms. Kennedy to pretend to Hillary Clinton's seat?" the letter in Monday's editions said. "We French can only see a dynastic move of the vanishing Kennedy clan in the very country of the Bill of Rights. It is both surprising and appalling."
In an editor's note posted Monday on its Web site, the Times said the letter signed by Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe should not have been published because it violated the paper's standards and procedures.
"We have already expressed our regrets to Mr. Delanoe's office and we are now doing the same to you, our readers," the Times said.
The New York Times used to be a pillar of journalistic integrity - now it seems that they'll print just about anything - and instead of catching themselves at it, someone else catches them, and they have to print a retraction.
"All the news that's fit to print" seems to have turned into "If it fits on the page, we'll print it".
From the Jayson Blair incident, through the Judith Miller WMD in Iraq incident, and moving incident by incident to this latest one, it amazes me that the NYT could conceivably considered a valid source - especially on information that comes from high places or inside sources.
By no means is the NYT alone in this - but it seems to have fallen the furthest.
Is the demand for immediacy in news now destroying journalism? Is the demand to get the hot, inside story out on the Internet, out on the street before the bloggers break the story - is that demand driving the tradition of journalism into the corner?
Or is the NYT just lazy?