Here is some additional reader response to my most recent columns, “A Private Room With a Narrow View,” “The Candidate and the War,” and “Semantic Minefields.”
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Letters: The Pope, Anonymous Sources and More
By Clark HoytHere are additional reader letters in response to “Questioning the Pope,” “Squandered Trust,” “Censored in Singapore” and “The Danger of Always Being On.”
Anonymous Sources Postscript
By Clark HoytUnfortunately, there were more examples of anonymous sources that drew reader complaints than I could include in this week’s public editor column.
Dueling Columnists
By Clark HoytA surprising disagreement has broken out between two Times columnists, with Paul Krugman demanding an apology from Andrew Ross Sorkin and Sorkin so far refusing to back down.
Letters: Acorn Revisited, Political Labels and Plagiarism
By Clark HoytHere are additional reader responses to the columns: “Acorn Revisited”, “Lost in the Secondhand” and “Journalistic Shoplifting.”
Could Plagiarism Software Have Spared The Times an Embarrassment?
By Clark HoytCraig Silverman, the editor of Regret the Error, a Web site that reports on accuracy and honesty in the press, says most plagiarism by journalists is caught only when someone complains. That’s what happened last month at The Times, which had to endure the mortifying experience of having a bitter cross-town rival, The Wall Street Journal, point out the theft of half a dozen passages from one of its news articles. Read more…
The Paterson Bombshell
By Clark Hoyt4:02 p.m. | Updated This post has been updated to reflect Gov. David Paterson’s announcement today that he would end his election campaign.
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It turned out to be a bombshell after all, the scoop that derailed the political career of Gov. David Paterson of New York.
But it wasn’t what all those rumors were predicting earlier this month, when the Internet was aflame with anticipation that a Times story about something seamy in Paterson’s own personal life would bring him down. Read more…
Letters: “Too Close to Home” and “Someone Else’s Rumor”
By Clark HoytHere are additional reader letters in response to “Too Close to Home” and to “Someone Else’s Rumor.”
The Olympics? Don’t Tell Me.
By Clark HoytAt 6:24 last night, more than an hour and a half before NBC began its tape-delayed coverage of the Winter Olympics, The Times reported on its home page that Lindsey Jacobellis, a popular American, had veered off course in the semi-finals of the snowboard cross and was eliminated from medal contention. Read more…
Bill Keller Takes Exception to “Too Close to Home”
By Clark HoytBecause today’s Public Editor column takes the unusual step of recommending that a respected Times journalist be reassigned, I thought it only fair to offer Bill Keller, the executive editor, an opportunity to respond in full. Here is what Keller had to say: Read more…
Anonymous Sources Fuel Senate Controversy
By Clark HoytToday’s public editor column is about how The Times handled “Game Change,” a tell-all book relying exclusively on anonymous sources. Another controversy over anonymous sources that involves The Times directly has been simmering for a while. Read more…
Letters: Freelancers and Climate Change
By Clark HoytRe “Times Standards, Staffers or Not” (Jan. 3):
The clear intent of the freelancers’ contract seems
to be, “You will not accept anything of value not provided by The New York Times.” What payers are covered as “current or potential news sources”? Is there any person or organization
that is not at least a potential news source? Even a Stylite Monk sitting on top of a column for 30 years might serve as a source in a story about his motivations or experiences.
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Letters: The Archbishop’s Blog, Paying for The Times and Bloomberg’s Blowout
By Clark HoytRe “The Archbishop’s Blog” (Nov. 8):
The explanation for The Times’s refusal to publish Archbishop Timothy Dolan’s letter is lame and defensive, as is
the rest of your column. Your argument seems to be that because The Times gave the archbishop a lot of coverage and said some nice things about him when he first came to New York that it can with impunity
publish imbalanced and biased articles about the Catholic Church.
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Is The Times Ignoring the Boxing Ring?
By Clark HoytLarry Merchant, a former newspaper sports writer and editor who now comments on boxing on HBO, recently wrote to Tom Jolly, the sports editor of The Times, to protest the paper’s relative lack of coverage of boxing.
Letters: Fairness and the Health Care Sprawl
By Clark HoytRe “The Health Care Sprawl” (Oct. 11):
As a retired community newspaper editor in the Detroit region
who covered suburban governments for 42 years, I have to add another perspective on how the media handles complicated topics for its readers.