Patrick Frey (Patterico's Pontifications) gets a chance to serve up a well thought out and deceptively blistering criticism of the Los Angeles Times in, of all places, The Los Angeles Times.
Has anyone ever said something about you that wasn't true? Something that, if people believed it, would significantly damage your reputation? How would you feel if you saw that falsehood printed on the front page of the Los Angeles Times? Would it make things right if the paper later retracted the false statement - with a brief correction buried inside the paper?Credit L.A. Times Sunday Opinion editor Bob Sipchen with having the fortitude to open up the pages of his paper to its most vocal critics.For some, this is not a hypothetical question.
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aye. its says alot about th... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Ronny | February 13, 2005 3:02 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
aye. its says alot about the editor's rectitude though, if they allowed this article to be featured in their own paper.
1. Posted by Ronny | February 13, 2005 3:02 PM |
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Posted on February 13, 2005 15:02
2. Posted by transitory | February 13, 2005 5:38 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
How long do you think this will last? Can you say "lipservice"?
2. Posted by transitory | February 13, 2005 5:38 PM |
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Posted on February 13, 2005 17:38
3. Posted by Eneils Bailey | February 13, 2005 6:04 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I am in the category of skeptic, like Transitory. LAT has promised to do nothing at this point to deal with intentional or unintentional errors in thier news reporting.
Just print some articles from people or organizations who disagree with them.
I can see it now, proceed with the articles of criticism, then run some articles from a few wackos on the right, then claim that this is what LAT has been contending with in thier opposition.
Mr. Frey submitted a great article. Quite frankly, I am surprised LAT ran it. I will be more surprised, if over a period of time, they clean up thier act.
3. Posted by Eneils Bailey | February 13, 2005 6:04 PM |
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Posted on February 13, 2005 18:04
4. Posted by julie | February 13, 2005 6:31 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Yesterday, the LAT had a huge photo of Arthur Miller on the front page. It was about 6 columns wide with about 8 inches of text underneath. Inside, there were two full pages on Miller. Now sure, Miller was a great playright in his time. And, yes, he went Hollywood when he married Monroe, so there is that connection. But, really, if he wasn't such a leftist would they have even taken him off the obit page?
Just heard that Clinton won a Grammy! See above.
4. Posted by julie | February 13, 2005 6:31 PM |
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Posted on February 13, 2005 18:31
5. Posted by mantis | February 13, 2005 10:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
If he wasn't a leftist he wouldn't have been Arthur Miller.
5. Posted by mantis | February 13, 2005 10:23 PM |
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Posted on February 13, 2005 22:23