Credit where credit is due
: After the newspaper ethics session, I found myself sitting across from Tribune Co. President Jack Fuller (a long-ago colleague) at lunch. I asked whether — thanks to all the newspaper scandals of late and weblogs — the paper was hearing more questioning of accuracy from readers. He said he agreed with how Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., closed the session, saying that the most frightening aspect of these scandals is how few people feel compelled to tell papers of problems. But then he pointed out one case where it made a difference that could have happened only on the net: A veteran foreign correspondent was fired after making up the name, he said, of a source in Australia. Oh, I said, that’s Tim Blair, famous blogger and journalist. He didn’t know that it was a blogger who brought it to their attention. Now he does.
4 responses to “Credit where credit is due”
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next time you chat with mr. fuller ask him why they didnt get Ivan Rodriguez to catch for the Cubs… he was all they needed to finally win it all and they let him go to Detroit.
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Ahh, Pravda by the Lake.
Dropped it 2 years ago after being my paper of choice for almost 20 years.
I’m not wasting my hard-earned money on that spin. -
“the most frightening aspect of these scandals is how few people feel compelled to tell papers of problems”
My own experience suggests that telling newspapers about problems is completely useless — unless it is done in a public forum not controlled by the newspaper. -
I agree with Evil Pundit. In my experience, also, telling major papers or TV outlets about errors or bias is a waste of time.
