tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post5647056999217817638..comments2023-08-19T06:19:28.990-04:00Comments on the nytpicker: WORST STORY OF 2010: An Early Winner -- That Page-One, May 4th Clunker By John M. Broder And Tom Zeller Jr., "Gulf Spill Is Bad, But How Bad?"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-75144738999454526172010-06-28T16:51:24.734-04:002010-06-28T16:51:24.734-04:00Anonymous #5, no, the two Broders are not related....Anonymous #5, no, the two Broders are not related.<br /><br />John B. may be best remembered for his vociferous coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky affair.leftynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-47859565114957004632010-06-13T19:07:40.104-04:002010-06-13T19:07:40.104-04:00Why is there no link (or addendum to the story) to...Why is there no link (or addendum to the story) to the correction?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-90825514572253098942010-06-11T22:50:02.003-04:002010-06-11T22:50:02.003-04:00Re: 'Somehow what began as a promotion for an ...Re: 'Somehow what began as a promotion for an index service soon adhered to the skin of the paper itself, perhaps because the meticulous presentation of the acts of officialdom was long one of the ways The Times distinguished itself in an eight-newspaper town.'<br /><br />There were also many other ways like huge agate compilations in sports, long lists of the arrival of buyers, complete weather data and the infamous "Fire Records."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-55227014913977857792010-06-11T19:46:49.080-04:002010-06-11T19:46:49.080-04:00Is NYTPicker related to the movie producer David P...Is NYTPicker related to the movie producer David Picker?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-50564461437410870222010-06-11T19:43:40.865-04:002010-06-11T19:43:40.865-04:00Is John M. Broder related to David Broder, the pol...Is John M. Broder related to David Broder, the political reporter? I've always wondered that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-24610785881810333192010-06-11T15:00:47.652-04:002010-06-11T15:00:47.652-04:00Actually, a 2004 Public Editor column by Daniel Ok...Actually, a 2004 Public Editor column by Daniel Okrent discussed the phrase as applied to the Times:<br /><br />According to Times archivist Lora Korbut, the phrase first appeared in 1927, when the paper sponsored an essay contest to promote its annual index. Entrants were asked to elaborate on the contest's title, ''The Value of The New York Times Index and Files as a Newspaper of Record.'' (This probably did not attract as many contestants as ''The Apprentice.'') Somehow what began as a promotion for an index service soon adhered to the skin of the paper itself, perhaps because the meticulous presentation of the acts of officialdom was long one of the ways The Times distinguished itself in an eight-newspaper town.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-1454797434983565852010-06-11T13:02:51.862-04:002010-06-11T13:02:51.862-04:00Anonymous #3 is right. It's a term used by out...Anonymous #3 is right. It's a term used by outsiders, not the NYT itself. We stand corrected.<br /><br />What's not a "straw man" is the NYT's continued insistence that it offers the best news coverage in the world. (See Keller, Abramson, et al, ad nauseum.) <br /><br />By that standard, the Broder/Zeller piece is the embarrassment we describe.THE NYTPICKERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14586823420394569667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-53174783900415869042010-06-11T11:50:00.295-04:002010-06-11T11:50:00.295-04:00When and where did The Times ever call itself the ...When and where did The Times ever call itself the newspaper of record?<br /><br />Straw man, methinks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-53158752406784210682010-06-11T09:46:57.063-04:002010-06-11T09:46:57.063-04:00How many times has the original story been copied ...How many times has the original story been copied into websites, blogs, etc. without the correction? To be used by oil industry apologists, anti-environmental groups and the like? Another telling example of how misinformation in the hew age of instant communication can stay ahead of the truth. I doubt that many close readers of the NY Times saw the correction....sighAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-90532184406057751322010-06-11T09:32:51.502-04:002010-06-11T09:32:51.502-04:00NYT has a definite bias for the Brits for some wei...NYT has a definite bias for the Brits for some weird reason. If it was Exxon or any other American oil company instead of British Polluter they would have been falling all over themselves trying to prove how bad the spill is. This is not just another Fox News zombie speaking either but someone who has been following NYT for years.<br /><br />P.S. I am sick and tired of reading about Sir someone or Lord somebody else in an American newspaper. I am not a subject of the queen, I am a citizen of the U S motherf**cking A!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com