tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post6713974828993765483..comments2023-08-19T06:19:28.990-04:00Comments on the nytpicker: Within 48 Hours, NYT Publishes Two Contradictory Versions Of Carl Paladino's Affair-Love Child Confession. Which One's Right?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-78850370179024677412010-09-30T05:28:48.013-04:002010-09-30T05:28:48.013-04:00Anonymous at 10:53 pm wrote:
"your sentence....Anonymous at 10:53 pm wrote:<br /><br />"your sentence... is vicious and agenda-driven, and against the very tenants of what you purport to do here -- uphold facts".<br /><br />Yeah, NYTpicker, I wouldn't want to be one of your tenants.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-51762290303729828832010-09-29T14:48:14.153-04:002010-09-29T14:48:14.153-04:00The reporters chose to be chronologically unspecif...The reporters chose to be chronologically unspecific, despite the specific evidence, albeit, a adulterated wife's narrative. <br /><br />There's no shame in pointing this out.<br /><br />But to go from there to say that they did it to spite Dominus, or to undermine Cathy, or to pat Carl on the back for his upstate-pleasing mastery of the metaphorical pliers is a natural stretch, and lets out too much room for muck. Not saying this to deceive you, but to clean up, you used to got to balance with pacifying symbols, these may include, orange juice, semi-nude girls ready to receive, and do you really wanna know more?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-89125746803416998402010-09-29T14:27:23.269-04:002010-09-29T14:27:23.269-04:00It's always awkward to ask these questions, bu...It's always awkward to ask these questions, but average readers and voters might or might not want to know where does such a gubernatorial candidate stands on mandating sexual health and reproductive education in state-funded schools, given his past slippage on personal reproductive control?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-39086684093753629072010-09-29T14:24:23.158-04:002010-09-29T14:24:23.158-04:00Obviously you've provoked some rage, and it...Obviously you've provoked some rage, and it's always better to contain on-demand anger with eye candy and more formal trophies, so please compensate, like, if you could please update with the following correction: "His wife obviously feels adored by him, and he is a fine role model of the perfect husband and father that NY parents and hopefuls need and deserve. The very talented New York Times New York reporters are wonderful for asking all the poignant questions, the very best money could and should buy." Thank you everybody, and please leave the TV on so it logs you as a loyalist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-58948227031211762192010-09-29T11:49:39.156-04:002010-09-29T11:49:39.156-04:00As always, I love the nasty anonymous coments from...As always, I love the nasty anonymous coments from people who clearly work at the NYT. Last night's missive looks like it's from the pen of Mr. Halbfinger or Mr. Barbaro. <br /><br />To their points, I would say that it's perfectly fair for NYTPicker to play the role of reader, and speculate on the reasoning behind the NYT's editorial decisions. It isn't the act of an asshole or a motherfucker. It's the proper role of a media critic. <br /><br />I have my problems with this website at times. The goofy humor seems out of place. But I've always appreciated its avoidance of snark and foul language. Keep it up, assholes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-78628901949839764192010-09-29T07:15:47.127-04:002010-09-29T07:15:47.127-04:00Yeah, fuck you NYTPicker!Yeah, fuck you NYTPicker!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-54978212292903386592010-09-29T02:46:24.887-04:002010-09-29T02:46:24.887-04:00Look, I take pretty much everything in the New Yor...Look, I take pretty much everything in the New York Times as suspect. The paper has lost so much of its reputation that I simply can't risk trusting it anymore like I used to.<br /><br />Two contradictory versions of a story? So? That's happened before. <br /><br />Ever see someone who survived a really aggressive cancer? The heavy-duty chemo, the brain fog, the surgery, the scarring, the weight lose, and they're never quite the same again? That's kind of what happened to the Times. The management, fighting mightily for the noblest of purposes -- ensuring their pensions, enormous salaries and obscene perks would continue -- gutted the paper. <br /><br />The damage is permanent. At least in the scale of a journalism career. It will take decades to repair all the butchery. And that's assuming the paper doesn't end up going broke.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-63640397586292290442010-09-28T22:53:04.810-04:002010-09-28T22:53:04.810-04:00Fuck you NYTPicker, you often infuriate, but today...Fuck you NYTPicker, you often infuriate, but today you're just an asshole. <br /><br />your sentence "so we can only GUESS that Paladino -- or someone close to him -- wanted to make his confession appear more noble and above-board than it did in the Dominus version" is vicious, and agenda-driven, and against the very tenants of what you purport to do here -- uphold facts.<br /><br />why don't you hazard some other "guesses" while you're out trashing reputable journalists' well-written and non contradicting stories. <br /><br />How about, "We can only guess that Paladino foisted lollipops on the reporters, like he did in Saturday's Bay Ridge parade to bribe them in to making him look more noble"?<br /><br />or "We can only guess that Paladino threatened to surround their houses with cement as he did upstate if they didn't construct a sentence that a no body blogger could intentionally misread"?<br /><br />Ever think that editing, word choice, syntax and storytelling or the simple fact that THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE FACTS AS STATED IN BARBARO and HALBFINGER'S STORY, thus they'd have reason to question themselves, might be a good guess for "what's happening"?<br /><br />Either you hate Barbaro and Halbfinger or you hate Paladino and choose to skew your reading of the facts so that you can take your vengence at one or the other of them. Either way, you're just embarassing yourself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8007635024151290238.post-22188175601264906042010-09-28T17:19:37.399-04:002010-09-28T17:19:37.399-04:00You'd think the basic rationality of informati...You'd think the basic rationality of informational bartering would take care of this, but the reporters' refusal to incorporate the cheated wife's bit from the Dominus interview is puzzling. <br /><br />Afterall, this is a republican candidate for with a bastard child and a killed first born, who stands to either lose or win an election.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com