Tuesday, January 03, 2006

NYT's "Stonewalls" - 2005 MSM antics



Ahhhh... dissention among the rank and file of the New York Times. On the heels of Byron Calame's New Year's Day editorial in the Times where he described the papers' explanation to publish the NSA story, after a year's delay, as "woefully inadequate", comes his criticism of his paper to Joe Strupp at E&P, linked above.

The public editor, who serves under a two-year contract that runs out in June 2007, said he had never received such a lack of cooperation from Sulzberger and Keller in the past, adding that past responses "haven't always been everything that a public editor wants, but they have answered." He described his position as operating "with total independence" adding that "I don't think in terms of cooperation. I think in terms of looking at the process from an isolated position outside the newsroom."


Executive Editor Bill Keller and Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr are not only ignoring Calame, they refused to respond to requests for statements from The Editor and Publisher to use with the article linked above as well. And, according to Calame, they are also "urging" silence for fellow staffers as well.

Boy'o'boy. Must be tough behaving exactly like those they so love to villify... LOL

And speaking of MSM behaving badly, I thought Carol Platt Liebau of Human Events summed up year in retrospect for the press haunchos in her op-ed, "2005's Big Loser: The Liberal Media".


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