It’s over but they’re still writing about it…
The New York Post’s Michael Starr writes about the NY Times correction…
Yesterday, The Times published an “Editors’ Note” admitting that it had goofed when TV critic Alessandra Stanley wrote that Geraldo “nudged” aside an Air Force rescue worker in a Hurricane Katrina play for airtime.
“It’s enough in the sense that they finally acknowledge that they had made an actual error,” Rivera told The Post yesterday.
“But the way they did it — the grudging, rude and disrespectful way they did it — still irks me.
“But it’s enough that I’m not going to sue them.”
Boy, if it takes lay suits to get the media to admit where its wrong, we better open the flood gates to straighten them out.
Comment by Matt — September 29, 2005 @ 2:56 pm
i think its a FNC vs NYT problem really but Geraldo is the least polarizing figure of the bunch though. Im suprised it took so much to get a half assed correction out of them. The obviously necessary, they are the Ying to the FNC’s yang and going on The Factor made it twice as hard and made NYT look twice as foolish cuz it got the word out.
I’d really like to hear some decent reasons for them to be so wierd about this correction, until them i guess this is a lesson of Arrogance for the NYT.
Comment by Wake — September 29, 2005 @ 4:04 pm