{"id":995,"date":"2004-05-30T18:06:31","date_gmt":"2004-05-31T01:06:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-05-30T18:06:31","modified_gmt":"2004-05-31T01:06:31","slug":"another-sermon-from-the-nyt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/30\/another-sermon-from-the-nyt\/","title":{"rendered":"Another sermon from the NYT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading A1 critiqes<\/a> NY Times omsbudsman Okrent’s comment on the notorious “Editor’s Note”<\/a> non-apology for hyping disinformation about Saddam Hussein’s nonexistent WMD. An excerpt:<\/p>\n

The word from Pastor Dan. Daniel Okrent’s rhetorical stance is always, “We journalists.” His job, as he seems to take it, is to offer the (perversely uncomprehending) masses a glimpse into the mysteries of the trade. Okrent writes as if the “public” part of public editor were a suggestion of taint: as if his chief concern was to make sure that nobody in the fraternity could mistake him for one of those hairy, gap-toothed outsiders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest…..<\/a><\/p>\n

Billmon has an interesting insight on the Okrent piece, which makes the “Editors Note” seem even more craven and self-serving than it did when I first read it. Check out his timeline.<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh, and don’t miss this little nugget from Okrent: “While I’m on the subject: Readers were never told that Chalabi’s niece was hired in January 2003 to work in The Times’s Kuwait bureau. She remained there until May of that year.<\/em>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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