To those of you who roll your eyes and groan when you hear people go on and on about the biased news media that injects its personal opinions into news stories and peppers them with assumptions that the writer more than "critics say" seems to hold, roll your eyes no longer.
The New York Times has a piece that makes you conclude: somewhere at that (once stellar) newspaper, an editor was asleep at the switch.
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There are worse things in Thompson's closet that good journalism could turn up. This is probably as bad as the hack jobs on Hillory and Edwards haircut; all things to object to. But blood, bombs, and boobs will sell tabloids, eh?
Gandelman calls to account the NYT for biased reporting and manufacturing a story about Fred Thompson. Connects it to the campaign season. As the NYT belittles Republican challengers and performs its usual service on behalf of whoever the self-anointed decide ought to be our next president, it will be interesting to see how impactful will be the blogosphere's attempts to counter this advocacy with sunshine and its own advocacy.
Leaving aside the fact that I know and worked with the author, he makes an excellent point. The piece he talks about is not journalism -- it is a hit piece. Joe called it right. As much as I hate to give anything to Thompson, Joe is correct that not only was someone asleep at the switch, someone seems to have stayed up all night figuring out how to make Thompson look unpalatable. Good on you, Joe.
this is merely venting. There is no there there, the picture very much suggests a trophy wife, and who cares anyway? the NY times's campaign coverage is always low (Maureen Dowd, Elisabeth Bumiller, Adam Nagourney). Remember John Edwards' haircut-that-will-not-die? Yawn.
It's not journalism, it's commentary, a critique of the New York Times editorial choice of subject. The original story is frivolous, to be sure, but since it appeared in the Fashion & Style section, and is just a speculative piece about Thompson's wife and how she would compare to other candidates wives, it certainly was something you would expect in the Fashion & Style section. To read this critique of the New York Times, one would think it had appeared in the Politics section. In his drive to question the Times's editorial policy, the writer left out the context of the story and also failed to point out the Times's criticism of Joe Scarborough's tasteless comments, that the article did in fact define the term "trophy wife" and ... More »
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