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Quality control problems at the NYT ("fake but accurate" without the "accurate" part)

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Posted by Mike 2007-10-15 06:08|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Apparently, the difference between 'journalism' and 'just making stuff up' is that there isn't one.

Posted by SteveS 2007-10-15 10:35|| 2007-10-15 10:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Good to see that some of the old traditions haven't gone away.
One helpful hint though, honey? If ya gonna get caught, it's better if you're dead...

Posted by The Ghost of Walter Duranty 2007-10-15 10:50|| 2007-10-15 10:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Quality control problems at the NYT ("fake but accurate" without the "accurate" part)

It's a feature, not a bug.

Posted by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr 2007-10-15 10:58|| 2007-10-15 10:58|| Front Page Top

#4
I like to call it Creative Journalism

sounds sorta artsy

Posted by macofromoc 2007-10-15 11:08|| 2007-10-15 11:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Isn't that a academic major? Creative Journalism?

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-10-15 11:14|| 2007-10-15 11:14|| Front Page Top

#6 FFF; Fiction and fraud without frills.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-10-15 12:39|| 2007-10-15 12:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Okay, I admit I get the NYTs but only the Sunday edition - for the crossword (this is the political equivalent of saying you only read Playboy for the stories). Each Sunday I read Solomon's Q&A feature to see if somehow she is able to weave in an anti-American, anti-Bush, anti-WoT, anti-Iraq or pro-NYT progressive humanist secularist agenda. Even if the interviewee is a fashion designer, condo developer, hotel magnate, investor, etc. She never fails to disappoint. Its for that reason, that I always felt her interviews were contrived. Good to know, I wasn't the only one believing that.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-10-15 14:14|| 2007-10-15 14:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Jack, Jack, Jack....

How long have you had this problem?

Do you want to talk about it?

Have you sought professional help?

Maybe we at the 'Burg can be of assistance?

Posted by Bobby 2007-10-15 17:12|| 2007-10-15 17:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Jack, there's a cure for NYT addiction.

Cancel your subscription.

That's all. No withdrawal symptoms, no methodone--just quit cold turkey.

Posted by Mike 2007-10-15 17:20|| 2007-10-15 17:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Ten things the NYTs can be used for:

1. Kitty litter box liner
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I can't think of another nine. Oh well.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-10-15 18:00|| 2007-10-15 18:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Um. The public editor is behind Times Select?

Posted by KBK 2007-10-15 18:16|| 2007-10-15 18:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Don't they have collections of NYT crosswords for sale in the bookstore?

Posted by trailing wife 2007-10-15 22:07|| 2007-10-15 22:07|| Front Page Top

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