In my initial post I stated that the Public Editor of the NY Times admitted that the paper "has trouble dealing with stories arising from the polemical world of talk radio, cable television and partisan blogs. Some stories, lacking facts, never catch fire. But others do, and a newspaper like The Times needs to be alert to them or wind up looking clueless or, worse, partisan itself."
The NY Times went further and stated that "Jill Abramson, the managing editor for news, agreed ... that the paper was “slow off the mark,” and blamed “insufficient tuned-in-ness to the issues that are dominating Fox News and talk radio.” and that "they would now assign an editor to monitor opinion media and brief them frequently on bubbling controversies."
Well, there has been a "bubbling controversy" being reported in the "opinion media" over the past several days regarding remarks made by Florida Congressman Alan Grayson where he described the GOP health plan as consisting of nothing more than advising sick citizens to "die quickly" and describing the GOP as a "bunch of knuckle dagging neanderthals!"
Guess what? The NY Times failed to "tune into" the Grayson controversy and report on it!
Of course, last month, the New York Times moralized in print over Republican Rep. Joe Wilson's "disrespectful" outburst ("You lie!") during Obama's health care address to Congress.
I guess it's true. You just can't teach an old dog new tricks!
Peter J. Mahon
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