Letters to the Editor
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NYT and I part ways here
I stopped my home delivery years ago, cancelled my online subscription last year, and, as of today, I won't even look at the online version for free. I'll miss Frank Rich, Bob Herbert and Paul Krugman. Today, my transition to blogs and a-la-carte online news enters a new phase.
Hiring Kristol as a columinist was not the whole basis of my decision, but it was last straw. I had thought many times about doing this, most recently when NYT acknowledged their mistakes with Judith Miller and WMD reporting, then went on to let the likes of Michael Gordon do exactly the kind of reporting Judy had done before. What they were saying, in effect, was: mistakes were made and we won't change.
Now, with Kristol, it's the same travesty. It is one thing to hire an up-and-comer who may prove to be wrong in the future. It is altogether a different matter when you hire a has-been who's been consistently, spectacularly wrong about everything to the great detrremint of our whole country. How does an editor explain that?
NYT and I started back in college when that paper was required reading for our political science class, and our English professor would challenge us to find even a single mistake anywhere in that paper. It is sad to see a great institution such as NYT fall so many pegs in a lifetime, but it did in my eyes.
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Che. oh, gawd. Pasa over this...read Che Pasa's blog everyday.
Look. Hillary.
Mom, no cavity.
My leg has a tooth ache. sorry.
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Candidate Response to Mind-Numbing Media Coverage
One aspect of the circus that has just taken place, I think, deserves comment. Most troubling of all to me was that in the grab bag of responses HRC and her crack advisory staff (can't say who is really responsible except that HRC is the boss) came up with to the media pile on was the despicable playing of the Al Qaeda fear card. She commented that Al Qaeda attacked Britain soon after a neophyte was elected, and insinuated that that would be the result of an Obama victory. I'll never forget or accept that.
The media may be corrupt, but candidates still have to stand for something.
dcben
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@Anonymous @ 6:12 AM
I could go on and on...
--Anonymous
Wednesday, January 9, 2008 06:12 AM
You did.
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Excessive Polling and Obsessive Media
-- I was just trying to contrast the media's obsession with polls with their virtually steadfast ignoring of substantive issues.
-- GlennGreenwald
Don't these last minute to minute polling reports and re-polling reports lose their validity as opposed to polls that are more credible due to their use of reasonably sanctioned and dependable methods or formulas? It just doesn't seem like accuracy can hold up when polls are being taken and reported every few hours or so.
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Beware!
The Evil Clintoris!
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LWM. no prey.
My leg has something 'warty' (~GG~) and sore on it.
I am too wordy. or, worldly. worried?
wondering.
The "news" makers are sure worthless.
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Mr. Greenwald,
How many of your readers are familiar with Brad Freidman, who writes at bradblog.com/? He follows voting issues, especially electronic voter fraud.
He makes the clear case that the pre-election poles were in favour of Obama, and the end results were completely different than that forecast by the polls. This was in direct contradiction to the pre-election polls for the republicans, that were spot on for McCain. He also points out that Diebold machines were used to tabulate the results for the Democrats. Has no one considered that there are people behind the scenes that want Hillary in, and Obama out? Could a little electronic flip change the results of a primary?
Check out bradblog.com/ to find out about why it is those who count the vote that matters, and not how the poeple actually voted. Electronic vote fraud appears to be alive and well in the primaries, and all the punditry in the world will not alter the results.
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The Canadian is Right!
The Evil Clintoris cried and the Dow Died!
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5EDJI
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Nova Scotia chowder. yum
@ 6:28/
No spiel right.
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Eh?
the clear case that the pre-election poles(sic) were in favour of Obama, and the end results were completely different than that forecast by the polls --The Canadian
While I am nearly as quick as some to believe the rat-fu**ery that goes on in this country with electronic voting, I don't think you need to invoke that today. Go back and read Awklib's post at the top of page four to see how the NH result was within the margin of error for the cited polls of the day before. Chalk this one up to "that's why we actually have the election" to mirror the sports metaphor of actually playing the game.
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Where is gloriousgirl?
We gettin nathan dun right tursday.
It's a windy witch wicked Wednesday?
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Bop aka AJ
Been to see that doc yet? You better.
One day we were driving up from Baltimore to Hagerstown, got stuck in traffic cause of a wreck outside of Frederick, hours just sitting there while they cleared the mess, finally got going again, and the rain came down, torrents, deluges, and we thought we weren't going to make it. Couldn't see, sliding all over, OMG, but we kept on, and finally got there, but the guy we'd were there to see was gone, so... there was a WaffleHouse by the side of the road, and we decided to get some breakfast (at 4p) why not, and we stopped in at the WaffleHouse in Hagerstown, and it was the most wonderful thing. We were welcomed like old family, and got fussed over, and we all sat around and chatted for 20 minutes while they made us plates of sausages and eggs and pork chops and all that, but I couldn't eat it because I had a toothache that just came up as we were turning around in Hagerstown, so I got to watch everyone else eat, and then we decided to go to Harper's Ferry because we'd never been there, and it was magical in some strange way, especially when we got up on the ridge and could see the confluence of the Potomac and the Shenandoah, a sight no one could ever forget. If John Brown had to make rebellion somewhere, that was the place to do it.
But still had to get that ache taken care of. No, I won't forget that day anytime soon.